- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:52:53 +0000
- To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- cc: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <4F205B2E.5080407@qbik.com>, Adrien de Croy writes: >> * Option for specifying preliminary metadata in front of content and >> update it to final values after content. This allows a server to >> Say this looks like "200=OK, 1Mbyte long, text/html, but hold on..." >> then send the object and update with "I was wrong, it was only 800k.", >> "Ohh, and btw, it expires in 4 seconds", "my disk failed, sorry: 206". > >that will make life really hard for intermediaries. When can you write >your cache index information, if information will be countermanded. Actually it will make it easier for some of them, for instance during ESI operations. It also means that we don't have to abandon a TCP connection just because something went wrong with a object (ie: more separation of transport from content) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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