Re: Content-Encoding: who does what? from Larry Masinter on 1996-06-05 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 1996)

From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 15:59:41 PDT
To: dmk@allegra.att.com
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <96Jun5.155948pdt.2733@golden.parc.xerox.com>

I'm confused by your "potential transition problem". In HTTP/1.1,
servers can start looking at accept-encoding, and send "gzip" or
"x-gzip" depending on which is acceptable. Servers that want to
send encodings without seeing an Accept-encoding: need to do whatever
they're doing now.

So I don't think this is an HTTP/1.1 issue.

Larry

Received on Wednesday, 5 June 1996 16:05:33 UTC