[Web-SIG] HTTP 1.1 trailers

[James Y Knight]

On Sep 28, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> I just realised that WGSI doesn't allow applications to send headers 
> as trailers (RFC2616, 3.6.1 Chunked Transfer Coding). I think that's 
> OK, as pretty much nobody uses them, and it would require a pretty 
> radical change in WGSI's design to support them, but I think the PEP 
> should mention it.

Nah, it's pretty easy for a webserver to add this feature as a WSGI 
extension, and for a client to do:
   if 'mycoolwebserver.set_trailers' in environ:
     environ['mycoolwebserver.set_trailers']([('Content-MD5', 
'blahblah')])

Since it's easy to add as an implementation specific enhancement, and 
since trailers are very close to completely useless, I don't think it 
really needs to be in the core standard.

James