RE: First reactions to mandatory draft

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Leach 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 1:51 PM
> To: 'Scott Lawrence'
> Cc: ietf-http-ext@w3.org
> Subject: RE: First reactions to mandatory draft
>
> Yucch. But you're right. Are there actually any proxies that do reorder
the
> header fields? We could make it be a requirement (in the Mandatory draft)
> that any proxy that reorders headers instead reject requests containing
> Mandatory. Or, if there aren't any proxies today that reorder, we could
> require that origin servers reject requests that have the prefixed headers
> ahead of the declaration of the namespace. That should be lots easier than
> the backtracking thing otherwise required.
> 
Putting the requirement in the draft not to reorder the headers
wont help existing proxies.. (they will happily ignore your requirement)

> 
> Paul
> 
> 

Received on Wednesday, 21 January 1998 05:12:45 UTC