Re: function and impacts (was: @scope and @headers reform)

2008/9/25 Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>:
> Regardless of how common this is, if headers cells can be chained AND
> authors can add arbitrary header associations, it is *possible* to construct
> a cyclic header chain. A proper spec must, then, define in detail what an
> agent is to do with cycles. (What does existing client software do, btw?)

If cell A is a header indicating that cell B is its header, and cell B
is a header indicating that cell A is its header ...

If you're in cell A and request the headers, it will announce cell B
as the header; if you're in cell B and request the headers, it will
announce cell A as the header.


Gez


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Received on Thursday, 25 September 2008 09:04:53 UTC