Re: Sun White Paper on WebNFS

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> At 6:42 AM -0700 6/14/96, Koen Holtman wrote:
> There isn't even a
> >facility for sending along the MIME type of the data.
> 
> Gee, *that* sure sounds like a modern Internet protocol... Why tell people
> what they're receiving? :-)

A transport protocol might have no business indicating content.

Or how to cache, or any number of other things.

But then the HTTP/1.1 spec might be 10 pages long,
and likely to be used for 10-15 years in essentially
its original form, like other "modern Internet protocols".
Oh well.

Joe

Joe
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