Adding a content size meta?

[Jason McBrayer]

solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes:

> I guess the question is whether we prefer adding this information into
> the response header and having clients do the request-and-terminate
> trick, or defining a well-known endpoint servers can implement which
> takes a path as an input and returns either what the response header
> would be, or maybe a small JSON structure of metadata (which could
> include stuff like last-modified date).

Personally, I feel like request-and-terminate is the better approach;
it's easier on server developers to correctly handle dropped connections
(which you have to do anyway), as opposed to implementing a separate
route for dynamically-generated metadata responses. I'm strongly against
returning JSON metadata, because it opens the door to unlimited
extensibility.

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