Re: chunk-extensions

On 2013-09-15 08:21, Willy Tarreau 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.

Can you suggest concrete text?

> 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.

Agreed.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Sunday, 15 September 2013 08:45:03 UTC