> transfer-coding Transfer codings are meant to be hop-by-hop, but we'd prefer if intermediate proxies just passed our messages through without caching. Can we achieve this? draft-mogul-*-02 says it's not clear whether this should be a transfer-encoding or a content-encoding. It seems to fall in the middle: it is neither hop-by-hop nor an inherent property of the entity. Should cope with q=0, which means `no, I'm not having that one', and (I guess) prioritize on qvalue. > non-rsync proxies We have to make sure that proxies that don't understand rsync won't cache the encoded response. [dc-report] talks about this a bit. The TE request-header field indicates what extension transfer-codings it is willing to accept in the response and whether or not it is willing to accept trailer fields in a chunked transfer-coding. The TE header field only applies to the immediate connection. rfc2616 seems to indicate that we can't pass unknown transfer-codings through proxies, because A server which receives an entity-body with a transfer-coding it does not understand SHOULD return 501 (Unimplemented), and close the connection. A server MUST NOT send transfer-codings to an HTTP/1.0 client. Since the definition of `server' includes proxies, this means that they won't allow this.