Re: http charset labelling from Larry Masinter on 1996-02-01 (uri@w3.org from January 1996)

From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:43:40 PST
To: keld@dkuug.dk
Cc: uri@bunyip.com
Message-Id: <96Jan31.184342pst.2733@golden.parc.xerox.com>

It would not require changing any existing specification for someone
to create a web server that interpreted

   http://host.dom/encoding/selector

to mean that 'encoding' was a particular encoding of the given
selector. The web server could even return a 'Location:' header in the
results that would give a canonical encoding, just so as not to
confuse caches.

'encoding' could even be UTF7, for example.

Received on Wednesday, 31 January 1996 21:43:56 UTC