Re: trailers and pseudo-headers

• From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
• Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:35:40 +0000
• To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <19984.1404286540@critter.freebsd.dk>

In message <53B3AD3A.8020307@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes:

>The reason I ask is that people might start putting ":status" into a 
>trailer and expect that to have an effect (it would be nice to have that 
>feature, but it wouldn't map to 1.1...).

It would also be pretty pointless:  It would just shift the buffering
responsibility from the server to the client.

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Received on Wednesday, 2 July 2014 07:36:02 UTC