Re: #178: Content-MD5 and partial responses

It seems like we're in agreement about this; assigning for -08.


On 08/10/2009, at 1:49 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> Yep.
>
> On 08/10/2009, at 1:20 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
>
>> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>> This was discussed both on-list and in Stockholm; AIUI the current
>>> proposal is:
>>>
>>> 1) caches MUST strip the Content-MD5 header when combining 206
>>> responses, and
>>> 2) origin servers MUST NOT send a Content-MD5 header on 206  
>>> responses
>>
>> Clients also MUST strip/ignore the Content-MD5 header on 206  
>> responses.
>> The whole point is that the combination of 206 responses and  
>> Content-MD5
>> is not reliable, right?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Brian
>>

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Received on Thursday, 15 October 2009 04:03:37 UTC