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> 2.5. Asynchronous headers ... While this is already possible to do with chunked encoding trailer, it is not a feature in popular use.

Can anyone point to a working example of this use of a chunked encoding trailer? It seems like a solution to the primary problem that came up on the discussion of HTTP Streaming: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4042247

> And if it for instance needs to redirect the user, it can’t change the status/headers to a 302/Location if it’s already ...



Yeah, I went down this road too. It looks like a good way to handle exceptions during streaming, but browser support is essentially zero.


Does it work in Opera?


Reinterpreting content? Nope. Opera (and only Opera) does anything with them — they're available through `XMLHttpRequest`.




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