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Re: trailers and pseudo-headers

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Wed, 02 July 2014 07:37 UTC

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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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