- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:58:10 +1000
- To: Salvatore Loreto <salvatore.loreto@ericsson.com>
- Cc: "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>, Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 09/07/2010, at 8:34 PM, Salvatore Loreto wrote: > > if I understood correctly Mark, you are to suggesting that just having an header would be enough and much easier to implement for the intermediaries, isn't it? > if so I don't see much difference in defining an header containing a value and let the intermediate decide if consider or not the value and then use it as a single bit! True, except that -- as I said before -- I think many implementers are going to misinterpret this header; because they're not used to using proxies and distributed systems, its semantics are quite subtle, and possibly dangerous (i.e., it will leave them in a place worse off than before). Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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