[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> With this in mind, this seems like quite a bit of information to pass 
>> along in the header.  As such, I've been considering a separate POST 
>> operation before the client fetches a manifest (regardless of cache 
>> status), begins a filelist operation, etc. that provides this 
>> information instead of trying to squeeze it into the headers.
> 
> This doesn't seem like a good idea.  We're adding a second round-trip
> and connection setup / tear-down into the process of starting an
> operation.  This is going to make these harder to streamline in the

It's not my preference to do this, certainly.  But isn't there a size 
limit?  How do I guarantee I'm not sending along a megabyte of text in 
the header?  I'm concerned that this will cause problems.

> future.  How do you envision this working once we start sending our FILE
> requests via pipelined http GETs?

That was the other reason I asked...

I'm concerned about header size.

-- 
Shawn Walker
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