RE: #178: Content-MD5 and partial responses

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> This was discussed both on-list and in Stockholm; AIUI the current
> proposal is:
> 
> 1) caches MUST strip the Content-MD5 header when combining 206
> responses, and
> 2) origin servers MUST NOT send a Content-MD5 header on 206 responses

Clients also MUST strip/ignore the Content-MD5 header on 206 responses.
The whole point is that the combination of 206 responses and Content-MD5
is not reliable, right?

Regards,
Brian