- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:41:21 +0200
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Roy Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>, httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2011-07-06 07:14, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 02:43:23AM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote: >> On 2011-07-06 02:19, Mark Nottingham wrote: >>> ... >>> What do people think about adding text to the "Considerations for New >>> Headers" section stating that headers may not be available on 1xx >>> responses in some implementations? >>> ... >> >> Do you have an example of an implementation that *does* expose 1xx >> responses, but not the headers on them? > > Julian, I think I understand what Mark means. It's not much a matter > of exposing either the header or the status, but to see how the header > will be used. For instance, if you send a "connection: close" on a 100 > response, it will be ignored by most implementations. If you send > "Transfer-encoding: chunked", it should (hopefully) be ignored. If some > implementations were to consider such headers, they could adopt a wrong > behaviour. > ... Still not convinced. Maybe it's worth noting that 100 is really a very special kind of 1xx, and coming to conclusions about what other 1xx codes can do based on what happens with 100 is not going to work? Best regards, Julian
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