- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:08:03 +0100
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 07:02:41AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > -------- > Mark Nottingham writes: > > > Did the mega-thread tire people out on this topic? > > I still think it is a fundamentally bad idea to try to solve the > header/trailer consistency problem using the salami-method. > > I prefer a simple clear-cut rule which leaved only a single > authoritative instance of any given field. > > For instance: > > If a field is present in the header it SHALL be ignored in the trailer. But it does the opposite, it makes two authorities, with one stronger than the other, and that's exactly what causes issues on implementations that only handle the part relevant to them. I'd rather use non-overlapping, independent sets. This way, an implementation finding a content-type (or whatever) in trailers only would not face the risk of working differently from one that ignores trailers and only sees the header is absent. Willy
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