Re: Issue 178 (Content-MD5), was: Prague Minutes

On 06.04.2011 12:49, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 04.04.2011 08:17, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> I've uploaded draft minutes
>> to<http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/80/minutes/httpbis.txt>;
>> corrections / additions welcome.
>>
>> Thanks to Salvatore for taking notes.
>
> Yep.
>
> Citing the minutes:
>
>> - Ticket 178: Content-MD5 and partial responses
>> ...deprecating CMD5 is a good way forward
>
> I've prepared a patch; see
> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/178/i178.diff>.
>
>
> It removes the definition, and adds (in "Changes from RFC 2616"):
>
> "Remove definition of Content-MD5 header field because it was
> inconsistently implemented with respect to partial responses, and also
> because of known deficiencies in the hash algorithm itself (see
> [RFC6151] for details)."
>
> Best regards, Julian

...applied with <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1267>.

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 8 April 2011 08:17:54 UTC