[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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