- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:36:31 +1000
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Cc: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
FWIW, in your use case, Martin, the intermediary is acting as the origin server -- it's a gateway, not a proxy. Cheers, On 17/08/2013, at 4:40 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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