Re: Tr: Injection-Info

Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:
> Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]> writes:

>> And Injection-Date: a sub-field of Injection-Info: (but maybe it was
>> done this way because it was easier to parse in order to obtain the
>> date?).

> We were trying to avoid the current situation where there are
> something like five different trace fields that different bits of
> software fills out.  Since you rarely need access to that information,
> it seemed better to collapse it into one field that one could parse
> when needed.

Oh, sorry, I completely failed on that question.  *heh*

Injection-Date is separate because it has a protocol purpose on transit
servers and the like.  So it's the exact opposite of what I just wrote
above -- it *is* needed regularly, and hence it's in a separate field.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>