On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Roy T.Fielding wrote: > >> If the client sent chunks, then it is safe to assume that the proxy > >> can send chunks as well. Generally speaking, user agents only send > >> chunks to applications that they know will accept chunks. > > > > The client could be sending chunks precisely because it's designed to > > work with a proxy that is known to accept them. That doesn't imply > > any knowledge of the backend(s) proxied, which might be anything up to > > and including the 'net in general. > > Theoretically, yes. However, in practice, that is never the case.
On the contrary! I myself have done a great deal of work on a proxy for mobile devices, for a household-name Client. The client software makes certain assumptions of the proxy that would not be valid on the Web at large. But the backend *is* the web at large. > > Also bear in mind that we were discussing (also) the case where the > > request came with C-L but an input filter invalidated it. > > I was not discussing that case. The answer to that case is "don't do > that". > Fix the input filter if it is doing something stupid. That was one of the cases that started this thread. I don't have an example of this, but someone did. -- Nick Kew
