Sitcky headers and pipelining (was: Sticky header draft -- as an attachment)

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>From: 	David W. Morris[SMTP:dwm@shell.portal.com]
>Subject: 	Re: Sticky header 
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>On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Jeffrey Mogul wrote:
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>> I think this leads to an ambiguous situation when the client is
>> pipelining requests.  We identified this ambiguity at the meeting
>> we had in January of the persistent-connections subgroup.
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>I think the ambiguity is also resolved if we change HTTP/1.1 to not
>allow pipelining UNTIL the first server response is received accepting
>the persistent connection and hence pipelining.

I thought that this was already the rule. Did it get lost when we made
persistence the default?

> That response will
>either include the server acceptance of the STICKY more or it won't.
>But there will be no ambiguity for the server to interpret.
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>Dave Morris
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