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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Apr 26 15:32:41 PDT 2011


On 04/26/2011 02:03 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
> 

It turns out this isn't a problem; caching is controlled by the
responding server; the cookies are ignored for the purpose of cache
control.  However, since the normal operation for a server is to ask for
no caching for dynamic content, this has exactly the desired effect.

	-hpa




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