Re: draft-holtman-http-safe-00.txt
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Thu, 10 Oct 1996 12:10:34 -0700
> Aren't proxies disallowed from forwarding methods they don't understand?
Nope, that restriction was eliminated by defining the message body
syntax independent of the method name (i.e., a message has a body
if it includes Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding, with the only
exceptions being HEAD responses and 304).
There will still exist problems forwarding new methods through
restrictive firewalls, but then that's the nature of a firewall.
.....Roy