Re: END_SEGMENT and headers, #2

• From: David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 04:53:15 +0800
• To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
• Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <461A1011-5A5F-488E-A2A0-72CF9FC15D3C@gmail.com>

On 2014–04–19, at 4:48 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 18 April 2014 13:38, David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> With an empty DATA frame, which is exactly how I’m doing my interface. But
>> it really sounds like a corner case. Metadata is much more likely to occur
>> at the beginning of a new message than later, or especially the end.
> 
> The classic uses of trailing headers is for metadata that is based on
> the entirety of the message like a digest or signature.

Sure. So back to my question, is an intermediary allowed to shift an END_SEGMENT from a header to an empty data frame?

Received on Friday, 18 April 2014 20:53:49 UTC