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As is the case with any informational response, a server might emit more than one 103 (Early Hints)
response prior to sending a final response.
This can happen for example when a caching intermediary generates a 103 (Early Hints) response based
on the header fields of a stale-cached response, then forwards a 103 (Early Hints) response and a
final response that were sent from the origin server in response to a revalidation request.

# Security Considerations

Some clients might have issues handling 103 (Early Hints), since informational responses are rarely
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