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Re: Use of MIME multipart for zero payload containers

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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:12:00 -0000

Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:14:23 -0700 From: "Dale Moberg" <[email protected]> The syntax, as I decipher it, requires one body-part but zero or more encapsulations (which is what a second or nth body part is called). So multiparts with just one part are allowed. That does not settle what do in ebxml, but there is nothing "wrong" with a multipart with one body part. Yes, the MIME standard definitely allows multiparts with one part. What I'm saying is that SOAP 1.1 With Attachments doesn't say whether you're supposed to (a) use MIME multiparts with one part, or (b) go back to the original SOAP format and not use MIME multiparts at all. It would be better if it said, one way or the other. And then ebXML MS would just "inherit" this.