Re: update: http progress notification

fre 2010-05-28 klockan 00:18 +1200 skrev Adrien de Croy:

> a) dropping a requirement to suppress these 1xx responses for HTTP/1.0 
> clients

That's part of the HTTP specification. Only need to be repeated here in
text regarding to negotiation support the new response code.

> b) not worrying about semantics of entity headers transported back in a 
> 1xx response.

Not sure we need to worry about those, with the exception of
Content-Length.

> An alternative could be a Progress header in the request, which then 
> would normally be forwarded by proxies.  Then this progress mechanism 
> could work through an HTTP/1.1 proxy that didn't know about it as long 
> as it forwards 1xx responses.

Not sure if/how that makes a difference.

Regards
Henrik

Received on Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:38:01 UTC