Re: Cache control in trailers?

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Greg Wilkins writes:

> If there is a proposal to make trailers more palatable/usable by some 3xx
> status code or some other signal in the header, then there is no need to
> include some XOR mechanism.

The XOR mechanism is primarily there to protect against proxies which do not understand the new 3xx code.

After some rollout period, I expect it will be safe to reduce the 'N' in 'N*64 bits' to zero.

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Received on Friday, 5 February 2021 08:42:52 UTC