Re: Proposal: 100-Continue optional under Client control

David W. Morris:
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[...]
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>I have just reviewed RFC 2068 and find no indication that 100 (Continue)
>is a hop-hop mechanism.

Maybe we mean something different when we say hop-by-hop.  

What I meant is that the message transmission requirements and binary
exponentiual backoff happen between *client* and *server* (these are
the words the spec uses everywhere), not between *user agent* and
*origin server*.

In a chain of clients relaying a request, it would be up to each
individual client to decide whether to wait for a 100.

[....]
>I would appreciate a reference to the working which establishes 100
>(Continue) as hop-hop.

It is the use of the words `client' and `server', rather than `user
agent' and `origin server' in the corresponsing sections like 8.2 and 
10.1.1.

>  Dave Morris

Koen.

Received on Friday, 4 July 1997 12:53:40 UTC