- From: Roman Czyborra <czyborra@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 22:15:05 +0100
- To: HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> >1. Why is From: only a request header? It would be nice to provide > > the address of the file owner so you know where to send comments > > if the author forgot to add a <LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:..."> > > Sure, it'd be nice. It's probably impossible to implement in an efficient > fashion on most servers today. No, not at all. On Unix, every file already has an owner, and I could hack my httpd in no time to construct an email address from it. > There are plenty of times when the author of a document has no desire to be > contacted by millions of people on the net. The response From: could and should be optional as the request From: > Link: <mailto:e-mail_address>; REL="made" This would have to be REV="made", not REL. From: would provide better compatibility with the existing tools for rfc822 messages than Link.
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