Re: [RFC] Have-Digest and duplicate transfer suppression

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:29:35 +1200

 On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:12:56 +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:09:38 +1200, Robert Collins wrote:
>> (But for clarity - I'm fine with what you proposed, I just wanted to
>> consider whether the standards would let us do it more directly,
>> which
>> they -nearly- do AFAICT).
>>
>> -Rob
>
> Same. I don't mind this type of extension ...BUT...
>
> I think fixing bug 2112 (lack of If-None-Match support) and bug 2617
> (wrong ETag validation handling) should be done first before any
> extensions are tried. That will allow you to see who much of a
> problem
> (or not) the potential failure cases actually are in practice.
>
> Amos

 Want-Digest: and Digest: validation mechanism from
 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3230 covers the remainder of the proposal.
 So no custom extensions needed to meet all the requirements.

 Amos
Received on Thu Aug 11 2011 - 03:29:39 MDT

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