Re: Interaction between "editheader" and "redirect"

[Tony Hansen <tony@xxxxxxx>]

Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> 
> Ned Freed wrote:
>> I see three ways to implement this:
>>
>> (1) Don't allow editheader actions on Received: fields, period.
>> (2) Silently ignore any deletions made to Recieved: fields when redirect
>>    is used.
>> (3) Add in enough dummy Received: field to keep the count from going
>> down.
>>
>> I'm going with option (2), but I have to question whether we really
>>  want to allow (3). It sure sounds like a bad idea to me.
> 
> I agree that we don't want to encourage (3).
> Can we rephrase the text to say that if an implementation allows
> deletion of the Received headers, it MUST implement some other kind of
> loop control?

I'd rather specify (1) but can live with (2).

Note, there is a 4th option, which I'll call (1a).

  (1a) Always silently ignore any deletions made to Received fields.

	Tony Hansen
	tony@xxxxxxx