Re: Headers / caches proposal (revised)

On May 2, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

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> On May 2, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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>> On 2006/05/02, at 1:33 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
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>>> Combining these lists, your list does not include Connection,  
>>> Upgrade, Expect, Via, From, Max-Forwards or Proxy-Authorization.  
>>> Are you convinced all those are safe? Do you think my specific  
>>> justifications for Connection, Upgrade and Expect were wrong?
>>
>> WRT Connection: Mark Baker made an argument that someone may  
>> design an extension that is hop-by-hop, and therefore needs to be  
>> added to Connection. Note that the proposal doesn't allow it to be  
>> overwritten; only appended to.

BTW, I don't think "only appended to" solves it, since one of the  
anticipated problems is that "Close" could be added and may break an  
existing persistent connection.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Wednesday, 3 May 2006 01:56:37 UTC