Re: chunk-extensions

Sounds like a plan.

On 15/09/2013, at 4:21 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 04:01:01PM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Document that they may not be persisted beyond a, because chunking (and therefore extensions) don't have any semantic in the message itself. Furthermore, that they're not available in most implementations.
> 
> Probably it would be easier to remind that just like chunks themselves,
> they're connection-specific, since any intermediary is allowed to
> rechunk differently. It is also obvious that a compressing gateway
> will rechunk for example.
> 
> But I agree with Roy that it would be too bad to get rid of something
> that most implementations can already parse (even if they don't use
> them) and will continue to parse whatever we write in the spec,
> especially if there is some potential for using them in the future.
> 
> Willy
> 

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