- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:48:27 -0500
- To: rlgray@us.ibm.com, HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
At 14:02 11/19/97 EST, rlgray@raleigh.ibm.com wrote: >I don't see the point of the trailer field at all. >Why not just say, as suggested: The purpose of the Trailer header field is to provide a general mechanism describing where headers are in a message, so that it doesn't have to be on a case by case basis (see also description of problem [1]). The notion "Only put fileds in the trailer that can be safely ignored by the client (e.g., Last-Modified)" doesn't really say much as it depends on who you are (as a client) and what you are doing. The combination of Accept-TE and Trailer allows the server to put headers in the trailer and the client to say no thanks. Henrik http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1997q3/0659.html -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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