Re: #178: Content-MD5 and partial responses

On 2011-07-28 20:11, Eric J. Bowman wrote:
> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>
>> An alternate approach would be to deprecate the Content-MD5 header
>> itself, since MD5 is deprecated, other signature mechanisms are being
>> worked on, and the conflicting interpretations of this header make
>> interop difficult.
>>
>
> There are a couple references to Content-MD5 remaining, which is
> confusing now that no Content-MD5 section exists; I suggest removing
> mention of Content-MD5 from the following, perhaps making a note or two
> in the "changes from RFC 2616" sections:  p1 7.1.3.2, p2 7.4.

P1: not sure - this is about non-modifiable headers. Does deprecating 
C-MD5 change this?

P2: indeed.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:52:27 UTC