On 14 April 2015 at 07:21, Phillip Hallam-Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Streaming is a much harder proposition. Because many implementations
> of the HTTP streaming spec are broken and don't handle trailer headers
> that I added for the express purpose of supporting streamed
> signatures.

That's not quite right.  HTTP implementations frequently stream
request and response bodies.  The problem that people encounter is
where intermediaries (which include the stack you are using) buffer.
They are entitled to do so.  That causes some people heartburn, and it
breaks all the broken things that people think they should be able to
do.  e.g., Server Sent Events (http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/)

Trailers are broken in the sense that they can't be relied upon.  That
much is true.

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