- From: David W. Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:04:02 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > >I disagree ... there is a large difference between not being able to > >resolve a name and not being able to connect to an IP address. > > >From the point of view of the proxy, yes. From the user's perspective, > both indicate a failure of the proxy to map the identifier to a service. No, one is a failure to map to the service, the second is a failure of the service. Failure to map is often under the user's control or in the case of some UAs which try multiple URLs, the UA's control. Dave
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