Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental-02.txt

Hi Rory,

> On 21 Oct 2025, at 10:59 am, Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But if an entity wants to indicate either of the following:
> 
> * a stream MUST NOT be buffered, and a proxy must throw an error if it requires buffering
> * a stream MUST be buffered, and a proxy must throw an error if is cannot buffer the stream
> 
> what options will it have to indicate that?

Making it a MUST is not backwards-compatible with HTTP semantics, so I don't think it's on the table as a possibility.

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

Received on Tuesday, 21 October 2025 00:11:51 UTC