On 2013-04-18 1:13 AM, "Petr Kadlec" <petr.kad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 17 April 2013 22:33, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My understanding is its not really possible to do this in php in a way
> > that would actually be of use to anyone. See
> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26631#c1
> >
>
> Still, supporting this in a way “that wouldn’t be of use”, i.e. send the
> 100 status immediately instead of 417 would probably make it a tiny bit
> easier for clients. However, this is not a bug/problem/feature-request for
> MediaWiki, but for Squid. It seems Apache&PHP would handle this correctly,
> but Squid rejects such requests. There is a configuration variable doing
> exactly what Svick is proposing <
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/ignore_expect_100/>, but I agree
> turning it on would not be a good idea. And FYI: Squid 3.2 seems to
support
> 100-continue somehow, but not sure how much. <
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/HTTP11>
>
> -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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I disagree. If we supported it, people will expect it to actually work, and
add the extra complexity to support 100 continue to their bots. This would
be bad since it would essentially be a no-op and just slow things down.

-bawolff
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