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Re: Last-Modified in chunked footer

From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 13:44:23 -0500 (CDT)
To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970903134200.14353A-100000@hopf.math.nwu.edu>
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On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Jeffrey Mogul wrote:

> 
> Summary: ban hop-by-hop headers and Cache-control (and perhaps
> a few others, if I've missed them).  Allow all others in responses [in
> the chunked trailer].
> 

I agree.  Content-type is another one which should be disallowed since
browsers may want to start displaying before the entire file has arrived.
There wouldn't be much point in having Content-type or Cache-control in
the trailer anyway.

John Franks 	Dept of Math. Northwestern University
		john@math.nwu.edu
Received on Wednesday, 3 September 1997 11:49:03 UTC

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