[syslinux] Opinion wanted: metadata in HTTP requests (updated)

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/26/2011 12:51 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote:
> 
> In any case, I would think the problem you present is a major issue. 
> It's still going to outperform tftp I would think. However, the proposed 
> http://example.com/something?? may cause problems for a lot of proxy 
> servers I would imagine.
> 

Cookies could potentially be a serious problems for caching proxies,
since they would not necessarily know if the server responded to the
cookies.  This can be solved by disabling cookies once the configuration
file has loaded, but that certainly was a headache I hadn't quite
considered.

Hmm...

	-hpa