Re: Cache control in trailers?

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Adrien de Croy writes:

> why not design a solution that allows both requirements to work?

Isn't that *precisely* what trailers have always been designed to do ?

> Otherwise any intermediary that may want to enforce policy based on
> metadata will have to always down-grade the requests which makes the
> whole exercise less valuable.

Only for them.

The rest of us can still enjoy the speedup, which can be significant
in many API contexts.


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Received on Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:57:56 UTC