Re: NEW ISSUE: Drop Content-Location

HTTP headers have a separate name space in the message header  
registry, so it can be done;
   http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/perm-headers.html


On 2006/12/01, at 10:24 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> On Nov 29, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>> The only thing that should be changed at this point is 14.14:
>>
>>    The value of Content-Location also defines the base URI for the
>>    entity.
>>
>> s/also defines/does not define/;
>
> Actually, that can't be done either because Content-Location is a
> MIME header field and its meaning for MIME parts and RTSP is  
> applicable
> regardless of the current behavior of browsers.
>
>    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2557
>    http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC2557/Output/chapter4.html
>
> I think the browser vendors should put a little more effort into
> deploying the feature.  For example, by selectively disabling it for
> specific servers based on run-time testable behavior and
> reporting the errors when found so that the owner can fix them.
> It is, after all, a detectable error that can be worked around.
> It could even be a configurable option wherein content-location
> would only be used if the base URI is unknown or if the option is set.
>
> ....Roy
>

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