- From: Brian Pane <brianp@brianp.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:25:49 -0700
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > chunk-extensions aren't widely supported in APIs, and usually dropped hop-by-hop (then again, trailers can be too). > > Some discussion of trailer support in Apache: > http://apache-http-server.18135.n6.nabble.com/HTTP-trailers-td4796242.html > > … and using Trailers to surface debug information in Firebug: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/firebug/v5ldjoVThH8 > > (yes, this is a bit of a project for me) > > Finally, I know some server-side implementers would would LOVE to be able to set things like ETag and Last-Modified in trailers, and have them used by caches... The last time I looked at this issue, in the context of an optimizing load balancer where we would have loved to set ETag in the trailers, I found that browser support was almost nonexistent. Things haven't improved much since then: http://www.browserscope.org/?category=network If there's widespread interest in trailer support, HTTP/2.0 seems like a great opportunity to make it mandatory. -Brian
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