- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 17:41:53 -0800
- To: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>Sorry. Then the only fix is to say that proxies can't add Date when Digest >is in use. Date should not be part of the digest -- it gets updated at times when the entity does not change (think 304). Likewise, the Content-Length header field should not be part of the digest; instead, include the actual value for the size of the entity-body. Keep in mind the distinction between general-header fields indicating properties of the message, and entity-header fields indicating properties of the payload of the message. Aside from HEAD responses, Content-Length indicates the size of the message-body and not the entity-body. ....Roy
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