Re: [core] Questions dealing with Blockwise Transfer

[Christian Amsüss <[e-mail]>]

Hello Jim,

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 11:00:29AM -0700, Jim Schaad wrote:
> 1.  [...] might return some "large" size error resources.

Good questions.

> 2.  The document does not explicitly give any way for a server to stop a
> block transfer half way through.  While it would make sense to an error
> status is returned, I do not know if the block option is also supposed to be
> returned or not.  Note that this would not necessarily interact well with
> the idea of doing a blockwise return for an error status content.

Section 2.3 item 1 (on descriptive usage) clearly relates the numand
block size to the payload of that message. Thus, an error would only use
Block2 in descriptive use if the error payload is being fragmented.

(I know, that does not answer all the question.)

KR
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