- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:27:45 +1000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 23/04/2013, at 4:43 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote: > Then I would propose this addition : > > Multiple Via field values represent each proxy or gateway that has > forwarded the message. Each recipient MUST append its information > such that the end result is ordered according to the sequence of > - forwarding applications. > + forwarding applications. A gateway MAY simply relay any existing Via > + header field if it does not change the HTTP version, but it MUST NOT > + remove it. This is already covered further down: > A proxy or gateway may combine an ordered subsequence of Via header field entries into a single such entry if the entries have identical received-protocol values. The question I was raising was specific: can we relax the requirement for a gateway to add Via to responses if there isn't already one present? -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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