- From: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:08:49 +0100
- To: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Le Lun 17 mars 2014 09:45, Amos Jeffries a écrit : > On 17/03/2014 9:20 p.m., Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >> Le Ven 14 mars 2014 18:06, Patrick McManus a écrit : >>> receiving chunked requests is not supported with a high enough >>> certainty >>> that anyone yet wants to send them in a generic web context. >> >> Also chunked is useless in an anti malware context. You need to >> reassemble >> the chunks at the intermediary level because typical av only works on >> full >> files > > Chunked is hop-by-hop anyway so in theory it has to be reassembled and > re-chunked regardless of the scanning. > > Also, some AV are already on the way towards being stream processors due > to ICAP. Not there yet to my knowledge but getting somewhere close and > this would be another incentive to correct that file fixation. I would love to hear about those unicorns if they ever materialize. I sure could use a lot of them. AV ICAP systems seem stuck in the past, ours can't even process a basic eclipse download from three years ago right now (too many levels of imbricated java archives, too many small files) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
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