- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:24:41 +1000
- To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
+1 It may be worth putting a few words around Via so that people understand its function. The folks on this list won't be around forever to educate them (and although the list archives will be there, most won't bother with them). Cheers, On 06/04/2008, at 10:18 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > > sön 2008-04-06 klockan 10:06 +1000 skrev Mark Nottingham: >> /me shakes head at self... good point. >> >> The problem that this raises is that many people configure their >> proxies to not send Via headers. This breaks the algorithm that Roy >> posts later on... > > Yes, and the specs says... > > The Via general-header field MUST be used by gateways and > proxies to indicate the intermediate protocols and recipients > between the user agent and the server on requests > > The only way forward on that is educating implementers about the > importance of Via, and make them expose the following feature > instead or > allowing Via to be removed: > > However, if the real host is considered to be sensitive > information, it MAY be replaced by a pseudonym. > > which is the correct resolution to the issue people try to solve by > removing the Via header.. > > Regards > Henrik > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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