- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 15:47:10 -0400
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Koen Holtman wrote: > Did we already discuss the problem of a proxy which gets a chunked 1.1 > response and forwards it unchunked to a 1.0 recipient? It seems to me > that, if we don't define something different explicitely, this proxy > would be obliged to move all chunked footer-headers to the 1.0 message > header before forewarding the response as a 1.0 response. This > obligation would be a pain because it requires buffering of the whole > response. So we should either allow a proxy to drop the > footer-headers when converting to 1.0, or there should at least be some > advance notification that these headers will be present, so that > buffering can be avoided most of the time. The first alternative > seems best to me. But a proxy that wants to convert a chunked response to an HTTP/1.0 (one chunk) response has to buffer the response anyway, no? So it can easily move the headers when it sends the buffered response, and, while it's at it, add a Content-Length header. Dave Kristol
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