- From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:49:41 +1200
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 27/07/2016 11:11 p.m., Martin Thomson wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Yes you have correctly understood the draft. > > On 27 July 2016 at 12:33, Richard Bradbury wrote: >> Finally, a basic question: For this to work, both the origin server and the >> proxy server need to support blind caching. So how does a User Agent >> discover whether both do? Through trial and error? > > We use Accept-Encoding and a new header field to signal to the origin > server that the client is willing to do this. The proxy is explicitly > configured and this capability could be part of that configuration, > but we could do something better than that. Trial and error might > work, but again, a better plan would be to have explicit signaling. > Off the cuff, /.well-known/ might work. > As would a BC reply header in the initial CONNECT tunnel reply message which is generated by the explicit proxy. Amos
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