- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 14:56:23 -0500
- To: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Cc: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>, Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>, Eric_Houston/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com, Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
John Franks wrote: > [...] > Most of the suggestions by Paul and Dave seem to be clarifications > of the original intent. They should not cause problems. > [...] I still feel my one objection about proxy-added headers is substantive and unresolved. Briefly, an origin server might omit headers that get figured into the entity-digest calculation. A proxy might subsequently add those headers. The client sees a message *with* the headers, calculates an entity-digest that figures them in, and gets a different answer from what the origin server calculated. Dave Kristol
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