- From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 23:09:04 +1200
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 1/07/2016 2:05 p.m., Adrien de Croy wrote: > Hi all > > I've been trying unsuccessfully to find a browser that sets TE header in > requests. > > Tested IE, Chrome, Firefox and Opera current versions. > > I note that the wikipedia page for it comments that due to some > unreliable servers (e.g. breaking on TE headers) that browsers now > tended to not use it. > > Is it a completely defunct header then? We were thinking it could be a > good option for reverse proxy bandwidth reduction (apart from HTTP/2 of > course). Pointless if nobody is using it, and even worse if the proxy > would have to retry if the server broke on it (e.g. if a proxy inserted > it for upstream). > > Regards > > Adrien de Croy FWIW The Squid eCAP plugin to enable gzip encoding uses it on server connections. Other than that it seems to be a big empty space. For HTTP/2 there is <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kerwin-http2-encoded-data-08> which unfortunately does not show up on the WG tracker page of related drafts for some reason. Amos
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