- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 13:54:40 -0800
- To: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Cc: Lorenzo Vicisano <vicisano@iet.unipi.it>, http-wg mailing list <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> I'm all for addition of Proxy-Connection: keep-alive to the spec; more
> specifically:
In a word, NO. It does not adequately take into account the presence
of hierarchical proxies, nor does it help with gateways. The only
way to differentiate communication capabilities is through the
protocol name + version number, since that is the only feature
that cannot be passed on by a proxy. Things will improve with HTTP/1.1
in terms of communication rules, but we are not going to add another
proxy header hack when it won't be sufficient anyway.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Friday, 17 November 1995 14:00:43 UTC