- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 08:20:41 PDT
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
I like Jeff's proposal, even though it's a significant broadening of the requirements for HTTP/1.1 recipients (both clients & servers) to deal with header-fields in a chunked trailer, since I think it goes a long way toward making HTTP more useful with dynamically generated content. > In some cases, however (such as an indefinitely long server push), > it is actually impossible to buffer the entire response at any > point. In such cases, one clearly needs to put the headers > before the content! This would seem to preclude the use of > Content-MD5 (and some forms of Digest Authentication?) in these > cases. I think that "indefinitely long server push" should be explicitly disallowed. What's a robot to do, for example? I suppose this is a different topic. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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