Re: 103 (Early Hints) vs. response headers

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Fri, 24 February 2017 00:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: 103 (Early Hints) vs. response headers
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My .02 -

> On 24 Feb 2017, at 2:27 am, Vasiliy Faronov <vfaronov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    HTTP/1.1 103 Early Hints
>    Link: </another-resource>; rel=preload
>    Warning: 299 - "something is not quite right"
> 
>    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>    Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:49:43 GMT
>    Content-Type: text/html
>    Link: </another-resource>; rel=preload
>    Connection: close
> 
>    ...text goes here...
> 
> Should it log/display the warning (as applied to the 103 response), or
> discard it (as missing from the 200 response)?
> 
> Should the spec for 103 be more explicit about this?

My reading is that "officially", the Warning is not in the response; the server thought something was wrong early in the process, but then realised it was fine. 

So, it MAY log/display the warning, but if it doesn't, it's still conformant.

Some more examples might help.

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/