- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 14:23:54 -0700
- To: Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>
- Cc: Matthew Kerwin <matthew@kerwin.net.au>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 4 April 2014 14:13, Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com> wrote: > FWIW, the way Transfer-Encoding is defined in p1-messaging, it makes it pretty clear that compression MAY or MAY NOT be end-to-end at the discretion of each recipient in the chain, but it is not explicitly a hop-by-hop header and it definitely is not a frame-by-frame header (which is what is being proposed.) I suspect that that is only because it allows an intermediary to forward TE if it doesn't intend to un-Transfer-Encode the response on the way back.
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