Re: digest-headers-04: which digest is in the trailer?

Thanks Dimitri, good catch.

I agree with Lucas: a new header can work like

Has-Digest: sha-256, id-sha-256

If there's consensus it could be reasonable to include it into this spec.

Wdyt?
R

Il lun 8 feb 2021, 23:41 Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com> ha
scritto:

> Hey Dmitri,
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 10:06 PM Dmitri Tikhonov <
> dtikhonov@litespeedtech.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In the case where the digest is included in the trailer (Section 10.11
>> [1]), it may be beneficial for the client to know *which* digest the
>> server plans to include in the trailer.  This way, the client, too, can
>> calculate it in the streaming manner.  I wonder whether this use case
>> has been considered.
>>
>
> The use case probably has been considered but I'm not sure there is a
> simple solution that can already solve it. If someone knows HTTP-fu and
> wants to propose a valid way to do it with existing mechanisms, we could
> incorporate it into the example. Failing that, I think a new header,
> defined in a standalone document would be path forward.
>
> FWIW draft-thomson-http-mice-03 seems like it was part way to a solution
> [1]
>
> Cheers
> Lucas
>
> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-http-mice-03#section-4.1
>
>