RE: First reactions to mandatory draft

At 11:58 1/20/98 -0800, Paul Leach wrote:

>This is independent of the use of numerical prefixes. I always thought it
>was obvious that the Man header was required to come _ahead_ of any uses --
>but I can't recall if the spec _says_ that.

We can't guarantee this as a proxy may change the order of the headers.
Also, we can't guarantee that a down stream, non-mandatory proxy doesn't
add a new header with an existing prefix.

Henrik


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Received on Tuesday, 20 January 1998 15:32:15 UTC