- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:11:39 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- Willy Tarreau writes: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 08:51:51AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > -------- > > Roy T. Fielding writes: > > > > > Please, if there is something specifically wrong with the current definitions > > > of Trailers in the specs currently in WGLC, [...] > > > > There is, take for instance 6.5.1: > > > > Many fields cannot be processed outside the header section > > because their evaluation is necessary prior to receiving > > the content, such as those that describe message framing, > > routing, authentication, request modifiers, response controls, > > or content format. > > > > The unstated assumption is that the recipient cannot be required to > > spool up the body and wait for the trailers before doing anything > > with it. > > ... and watch the whole Web collapse because suddenly everyone > needs to buffer every byte in flight before even knowing where to > forward it if at all. > [rant] > But let's not suddenly declare that everything would be > better at the end because this is utterly wrong. Nice strawman, but nobody has advocated anything like that. Now, if you have any considered opinions on offering *an extension* which allows all *semantic metadata* fields be put at the end, I'd love to hear them. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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