Re: indefinite server-push (was 'Last-Modified in chunked footer') from David W. Morris on 1997-09-15 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 1997)

From: David W. Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:08:22 -0700 (PDT)
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970915120639.16933E-100000@shell1.aimnet.com>

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Ben Laurie wrote:

> A proxy which attempts to buffer complete responses is broken, so it may
> as well be non-compliant.

Not if the proxy is required to respond to an HTTP/1.0 client with
chunked encoding converted to content-length.

Dave Morris

Received on Monday, 15 September 1997 12:12:42 UTC