- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 23:20:40 PST
- To: koen@win.tue.nl
- Cc: mogul@pa.dec.com, http-caching@pa.dec.com
> In my opinion, it makes little sense to include a > variant-ID/variant-set mechanism in HTTP unless we can find some > frequently occurring case where the server does not want to use the > URI header. We would just be duplicating the > `variant-if-modified-since' mechanism of URI content negotiation with > no good reason. > Can you think of a frequently occurring case? Servers that can convert to any of several different charset encodings will not want to supply a URI header for each.
Received on Thursday, 8 February 1996 07:31:11 UTC