- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 13:24:50 +0100 (MET)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu, mogul@pa.dec.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter: [...hash based approach to content negotiation...] >Don't use it for embedded gifs and jpgs. In particular, if your accept >headers are short (as they are for image/gif image/jpg) the hash would >be longer than the material hashed, a bad idea. > >I only proposed this as an optimization in the case where the Accept* >headers are large. If it is an optional optimization, I have no problems at all with it. I don't believe I ever saw a complete description of how hashing would fit in with the rest of the negotiation stuff. Is there such a description, or do you plan to write one? Koen.
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