Re: trailers and pseudo-headers

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:

> In message <20140702034611.2dd18217cd132f02ab3bf24f@bisonsystems.net>,
> "Eric J. Bowman" writes:
> >"Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hm? That would imply buffering all responses before displaying them?
> >>
> >> Exactly...  :status must be final and definitive before the client
> >> can decide how to present or process the body.
> >
> >I'm not sure how to interpret your position here PHK, but this would be
> >a major step backwards for the Web.
>
> My position is that :status can *never* go into trailers (which I think
> should be unsupported btw.)
>

It does make good sense. Actually, I cannot think of a better approach that
wouldn't imply the whole response.

All the best,
Alvaro