Re: First reactions to mandatory draft
From: Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Date: Thu, Jan 22 1998
From: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
Message-Id: <199801221843.TAA24997@wsooti08.win.tue.nl>
To: frystyk@w3.org (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:43:37 +0100 (MET)
Cc: lawrence@agranat.com, paulle@microsoft.com, ietf-http-ext@w3.org
Subject: Re: First reactions to mandatory draft
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen:
>
[...]
>This is an unavoidable problem when multiple extensions share a single,
>global header field space and no central registry can hinder this. The
>alternative is to pass all extension information as parameters:
>
> M-GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: foobar
> Man: "http://screwball.org/skidoo.html"; Skidoo=abc,
> "http://nutcase.org/skidoo.html"; Skidoo=def
>
>which avoids the problem altogether.
I highly prefer this alternative of passing all extension info as
parameters in the Man header. Dynamically allocating collision-free
headers is so difficult that is is not worth the trouble (see my
comments on an earlier PEP draft for a discussion). Why add a
complicated indirection layer if you do not need one?
If people really want headers, the draft can tell them to register
them in the upcoming IANA header registry.
>Henrik
Koen.