- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:16:08 +0000
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <20E5D3F0-503E-4615-A165-DE2814F12DE2@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri tes: >Just curious, what do people think about this? >What do people think? Not asking if we should adopt it, just whether I >should rev the draft. I see and recognize the potential bandwidth savings, but quite frankly the very idea scares me from a consistency point of view. At the very least, if we do this, some kind of integrity check (ie: a MD5 checksum or similar) should be included in the scheme, so that the client can check that the patch operation gave the right result. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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