Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpbis-early-hints-03.txt> (An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints) to Experimental RFC

Fair enough, but I wouldn't place requirements around this; just note it as something that might happen.


> On 27 Jun 2017, at 3:29 pm, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:59:32AM -0700, The IESG wrote:
>> 
>> The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol WG
>> (httpbis) to consider the following document: - 'An HTTP Status Code for
>> Indicating Hints'
>>  <draft-ietf-httpbis-early-hints-03.txt> as Experimental RFC
> 
> I've just noticed that it's never mentionned that a client should be
> prepared to receive multiple 103 responses as any informational response
> (or at least I did not notice).
> 
> I think that indicating that multiple responses MAY be sent with complementary
> and/or possibly overlapping links, it may help grasp the overall principle
> and the relation between these informational responses and the final one.
> 
> The case I'm having in mind is the same as described in the PR comment, a
> server-side gateway could speculatively send a 103 with a few site-specific
> links while the server provides another 103 with some resource-specific
> links.
> 
> Willy

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