- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:05:12 +0000
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <1EF98FEB-B3AC-4884-AC23-210CDCB24069@gbiv.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" w rites: >> Then keep it, and give it a sensible definition, without inventing >> a new class of unnecessary HTTP mangling beasts. >No, these beasts have been with us since 1994. They are part of the design >of HTTP. They are chosen by the client that use them. That does not mean that we have to rewrite the entire text to accomodate them, when it would be much simpler and clear for everybody to say that they should be treated as and behave as origin servers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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