Deploying new expectation-extensions

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:01:18 +0200
• To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <47F5297E.70406@gmx.de>

Hi,

interesting: 
<http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/wiki/ResumableHttpRequestsProposal>.

In particular:

"Note that section 14.20 of HTTP/1.1 indicates that "an HTTP/1.1 proxy 
MUST return a 417 (Expectation Failed) status if it receives a request 
with an expectation that it cannot meet". We expect that fully compliant 
proxies ignore Expect pragmas which they don't understand (as opposed to 
understand but cannot meet), but this remains to be verified in the wild."

So does anybody know that proxies do here?

BR, Julian

Received on Thursday, 3 April 2008 19:02:00 UTC