- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:35:05 +0100
- To: Robert Collins <robertc@squid-cache.org>
- Cc: Dan Winship <dan.winship@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:30:36AM +1300, Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Dan Winship <dan.winship@gmail.com> wrote: > > Part 1, section 6.1.3.1 "End-to-end and Hop-by-hop Header Fields" > > says: > > > >> The following HTTP/1.1 header fields are hop-by-hop header fields: > >> > >> o Connection > >> o ... > >> o Upgrade > >> > >> All other header fields defined by HTTP/1.1 are end-to-end header > >> fields. > >> > >> Other hop-by-hop header fields MUST be listed in a Connection header > >> field (Section 8.1). > > > > The fact that it says that "Other" fields must be listed means that > > the headers in the preceding list *don't* need to be listed, right? > > No, it has no bearing on the preceding list. > > > I suspect that 8.4 and 8.7 are just wrong, and 8.1 needs to clarify > > that it's only talking about newly-defined connection options, not the > > predefined-hop-by-one ones, right? > > Again, no. You've drawn a conclusion that wasn't suggested at by the text. If some text can draw readers to wrong conclusions, we probably need to find why and to adapt it. Regards, Willy
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