Content-Length the pros/cons

[Alain Magloire]

Bonjour

  One of the reason, I decided not to use "Content-Length" for parsing.
But it is better explained the tone is little flamatory.

http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/content-length.html

The other reason, I needed to know the # lines of the message.

Elm uses this scheme, it will seek() and if the jump goes to a place
where you do not find a "From " separator jump back an resume.

My earlier implementation did this, the speed gain was noticeable in
terms of seconds when testing on a 20Meg mailbox with ~6000 messages.
But since I needed the lines of the message, for example pop3d uses it to
calculate the size for STAT or LIST, the hack was removed.
Now I rely on the c-client VALID() macro for heuristic in discover the
"From .*" separator.

In any case amusing reading.

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au revoir, alain
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