Re: Cache control in trailers?

Am 05.02.2021 um 10:00 schrieb Greg Wilkins:
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> On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 09:41, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de
> <mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de>> wrote:
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>     Note: "Etag" is already marked as acceptable in trailers
>     (<https://github.com/httpwg/http-core/issues/262
>     <https://github.com/httpwg/http-core/issues/262>>).
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> Sure, but one of the suggestions to come out of this thread is that it
> might be valuable to put something in the header to say that the final
> value will be in the trailers.   This could be for an individual header
> (eg Willy suggested Cache-Control: no-cache; trailers)  or a more
> general mechanism like the 3xx proposal.
> ...

For fields that are *only* available as trailer, we have the Trailer
response header field...:

   Trailer: ETag

Now do we beed a generic solution for saying "I have this field as
header field, but I want the trailer field to override it"?


Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 5 February 2021 09:45:39 UTC