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intermediaries handling trailers #551

Closed mnot closed 3 years ago

mnot commented 10 years ago

In the IESG review of P1, Richard Barnes writes:

Richard Barnes

Comment (2013-12-18)

COMMENT 5 (almost a DISCUSS):

In Section 4.1.2: Suppose you have an intermediary that decodes the chunked encoding of an inbound message and generates a new message with known length (Content-Length present). It seems like you need to specify what happens to trailer fields in this case. The answer seems to be that they're just appended to the header, but AFAICT, that's not specified in the text.

Reported by julian.reschke@gmx.de, migrated from https://trac.ietf.org/trac/httpbis/ticket/551

mnot commented 10 years ago

fielding@gbiv.com commented:

From 2580:

(design) Strengthen the requirements on MUST NOT send certain fields in a chunked trailer and define how a recipient is expected to process received trailer fields; Lower expectations that the fields will be processed by all recipients; addresses #551

mnot commented 10 years ago

julian.reschke@gmx.de commented:

From 2581:

note change for 2580 (see #551))

mnot commented 10 years ago

verified as fixed