Re: chunk-extensions

"Eric J. Bowman" <eric@bisonsystems.net> Sat, 23 October 2010 07:08 UTC

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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:08:32 -0600
From: "Eric J. Bowman" <eric@bisonsystems.net>
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Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen any practical uses for them, and haven't seen any
> implementations that do anything with them other than throw them
> away. 
> 

Perhaps last-chunk, at least, should be retained...

http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-zhu-http-fullduplex-01.txt

...as it seems to be required for full-duplex.

-Eric