- From: Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 14:26:01 -0500
- To: Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>
- Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-httpbis-early-hints@ietf.org, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, httpbis-chairs@ietf.org, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 8/3/17 9:31 PM, Kazuho Oku wrote: > Consider the case where a proxy that cannot correctly handle an > informational response is involved. If the client sets a HTTP header > indicating that it is capable of receiving 103, the proxy will simply > pass through the header. Therefore, it would become a false signal to > the server. Thanks for the explanation. This seems reasonable. I'm still a bit uneasy about the implied encouragement to user-agent-string sniffing, but the intended status of "experimental" makes me worry about it much less than I would otherwise. Hopefully, we can learn from this experiment how pervasive incorrect handing of 100-class responses in general is for HTTP clients. /a
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