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#343 closed design (fixed)

chunk-extensions

Reported by:	mnot@…	Owned by:	draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging@…
Priority:	normal	Milestone:	24
Component:	p1-messaging	Severity:	Active WG Document
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Description

Right now, this is all we say about chunk-extensions (beyond the BNF, etc.):

All HTTP/1.1 applications MUST be able to receive and decode the "chunked" transfer-coding and MUST ignore chunk-ext extensions they do not understand.

Since this is an extensibility point, we should give guidance on how it should be used.

I can't really see establishing a chunk-extension registry; they don't have any semantic, and AFAIK haven't really been used in anger.

Proposal - add

""" Use of chunk-extensions by senders is deprecated; they SHOULD NOT be sent and definition of new chunk-extensions is discouraged. """

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343.diff (1.2 KB) - added by julian.reschke@… 7 years ago.: Proposed patch
343.2.diff (1.5 KB) - added by julian.reschke@… 6 years ago.: Proposed patch removing the deprecation and describing potential issues.
343.3.diff (1.5 KB) - added by julian.reschke@… 6 years ago.: Proposed patch removing the deprecation and describing potential issues.

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Changed 7 years ago by julian.reschke@…

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comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by julian.reschke@…

From [1535]:

Discourage use of chunk-extensions and deprecate definition of new ones (see #343)

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comment:6 Changed 6 years ago by julian.reschke@…

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Reconsider the deprecation (see <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013JulSep/1190.html>), and maybe add a note that this is a connection-level feature (see <lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013JulSep/1202.html>)