Vijay K. Gurbani wrote:

> Adam Roach wrote:
>
>> In practice, the received parameter is interpreted *almost* exclusively
>> by the entity that wrote it -- so interoperability shouldn't be as
>> substantially harmed by differing interpretations than might it first
>> appear.
>
>
> That depends.  A proxy that inserts a received parameter and *then*
> forwards the request to the next downstream server may cause some
> concern to the receiving server.  The specific behavior we have
> observed is that the next downstream server is unable to parse the
> request because of the brackets in the topmost Via "received"
> parameter that were added by the previous upstream entity.


Why are they parsing anything but the topmost Via header field? It seems 
a waste of processing time to parse the entire stack of Vias.

/a
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