- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 17:44:17 +0100
- To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- Cc: chown <elfius@gmail.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Adrien de Croy wrote: > Also, it's impossible for servers to calculate the MD5 in advance with > dynamically generated content. I'm not suggesting MD5 is useful. But if it was: Generally dynamic content does not have the size in advance either, so chunked encoding may be used. So, any calculated hash can be given in a trailer instead of the headers at the start of the request, in the final zero-length chunk. I think even Etag can be given there (if it also needed to be calculated as the content was produced), but somehow doubt any caches would use it. -- Jamie
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