Re: chunk-extensions

• From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:54:10 +0200
• To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
• Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <20101022045410.GK6572@1wt.eu>

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 04:08:43PM +1300, Adrien de Croy wrote:
> 
> I'd be in favour of deprecating them.
> 
> In fact come to think of it, since WinGate re-chunks data going through 
> (since it needs to de-chunk it for filters), they are effectively 
> stripped anyway.

Agreed. Also, I found that they significantly complicated the chunk size
parser code in haproxy and I would not be surprized if some chunk parsers
don't support them at all and fail on them.

Regards,
Willy

Received on Friday, 22 October 2010 04:54:47 UTC