Re: #445: Transfer-codings

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.

Received on Friday, 4 April 2014 21:24:21 UTC