RE: squid-2.4 and macs?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@marasystems.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 9:40 PM
> To: Henrik Nordstrom; Adrian Chadd; squid-dev@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: squid-2.4 and macs?
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> Also note that HTTP/1.1 lacks a mechanism whereby the client can tell
> the server which transfer-encodings it accepts, and that the
> server->client mechanism is quite inefficient (rejecting requests
> with unknown encodings as "501 Unimplemented"). Also note that
> transfer-encoding is hop-by-hop, as opposed to content-encoding which
> is end-to-end.

Huh? The TE field indicates requestor supported encodings. Or did you
mean for the client to guess what the server can supply? In which case
the client is expected to list the greatest possible list, allowing the
server to choose the best one...
 
Rob
Received on Sat Mar 09 2002 - 06:02:22 MST