- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:40:19 -0700
- To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 16 August 2013 11:29, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote: > That said, I'm thinking that this could easily be implemented as a > Prefer token per http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-http-prefer-18 I did consider Prefer when putting this together, and I almost used it (you'll notice that there is a nice+wait example in the doc already). The reason I didn't use Prefer is that my understanding is that Prefer is probably going to be ignored by intermediaries, since the formulation of Prefer is such that an origin server is where it is targeted. I also saw "Preference-Applied" as being a little disingenuous in this context, despite on first blush appearing to be relevant, I just can't conceive of any value in anything other than the negative (that is, this preference was NOT applied). That said, it does fit from one perspective. That is, this is an eminently ignorable header, and designed as such.
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