RE: Additional MIME headers

[Stefano POGLIANI <stefano.pogliani@sun.com>]

I am not an expert in all the protocols, so I cannot judge on the attached
answer from Patil.

If there wouldn't be such issues as the ones highlighted from Patil, I would
say "report an error"since the fact that someone sends "more information
than the receiver expects" may be a symptom for a misunderstanding.

But I would not object on the "ignore" policy if this is what people want.

Definitely I would not like to leave this choice to the implementation since this
could generate some issues of compatibility in the runtime.

/Stefano

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patil, Sanjay [mailto:Spatil@netfish.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 9:29 PM
> To: 'Burdett, David'; ebXML Transport (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Additional MIME headers
> 
> 
> 
> Ignore them. If you consider SMTP being used for transport,
> there will be a lot of MIME headers inserted and  consumed
> by SMTP handlers, which are also exposed to ebXML MSH.
> 
> thanks,
> Sanjay Patil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burdett, David [mailto:david.burdett@commerceone.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 12:18 PM
> To: ebXML Transport (E-mail)
> Subject: Additional MIME headers
> 
> 
> Folks
> 
> What do you think the behavior of a MSH should be if it receives a message
> with additional MIME headers that are not specified in the ebXML specs.
> Possible actions are:
> 1. Ingore them, or
> 2. Report an error.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> DAvid
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