Re: handling 1xx responses

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 18:31, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 September 2002 02.40, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > Upgrade: is a hop to hop header, and ONLY squid can issue it. So
> > I'm referring to both, but we won't issue Upgrade: requests at the
> > moment. When we support an upgraded protocol, this architecture
> > should still work as we can immediately switch to the new protocol.
>
> Thanks. The whole section on 1xx responses and proxies makes more
> sense now.
>
> This is something we should be able to make intelligent use of with
> only a little cooperation from server vendors (and proxy vendors such
> as ourselves).. one application which immediately springs to mind is
> compressed HTTP where compression applies to the whole stream, not
> just the entity. Much simpler and more efficient than TE.

and TLS on port 80 is another. (There is a IETF draft on this on the
HTTP pages somewhere).

Rob