Re: Whitespace before responses

On 30/06/2011, at 9:34 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> That said, skipping leading CRLFs can be quite cheap but can bring a new
> issue for browsers who try to detect HTTP/0.9 responses.

We've deprecated HTTP/0.9, so while it still might be encountered in the wild, implementations aren't required to support it, and we shouldn't prioritise its operation over good behaviour in HTTP/1.x.


> Probably that we should check if any client implementation supports it
> first, and decide not to take this approach if nobody does it right now ?

See the Moz bug; as I read it, they already support it if the response isn't fragmented.


>> See also:
>>  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668168
> 
> Well, to be fair, I don't really catch the relation between this and
> packet boundaries as discussed in this bug report. In my opinion, those
> are two orthogonal things.


Re-read :)


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Received on Thursday, 30 June 2011 00:29:34 UTC