> Content-MD5: 2A1238912371239587; alg=SHA > > This construction is likely to break for obvious reasons. Phill, this has already been discussed to death. There is no advantage to using a generic parameter name for an Entity-Header -- they can be added or removed at any time. The only thing you accomplish in such a situation is for programs to have to parse the contents of the header field in order to know whether or not it is applicable to them, which is a bad design. The obvious way to handle a new digest algorithm like SHA is Content-SHA: 2A1238912371239587 which is exactly how the HTTP protocol is designed. Leave it be. ...Roy T. Fielding Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu) University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056 http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/Received on Friday, 26 April 1996 16:30:20 EDT
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