- From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 22:25:02 +1200
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 02/07/18 22:03, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > -------- > In message <b2d51724-1cb0-6e5a-1ab0-17f86f5cdca7@treenet.co.nz>, Amos Jeffries > writes: > >> Max-Forwards goes almost there. Would just need to revise this part of >> RFC 7231 section 5.1.2 to make all recipients SHOULD decrement instead: > > Well 4.3.7 prevents CDN's from adding it: > > A proxy MUST NOT generate a Max-Forwards header > field while forwarding a request unless that request was received > with a Max-Forwards field. > That is where CDN / reverse-proxy acting as origin servers exempts them from general proxy rules. Amos
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