- From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 23:13:33 +0100
- To: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- CC: "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>, ejw@ics.uci.edu, "'Dylan Barrell'" <dbarrell@bb.opentext.com>, "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>, "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>, "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Yaron Goland wrote: > > A new version of the spec should be coming out after Munich that will > provide significantly better support for compound documents. As for > variants, the problem there is that we are forcing our way into server > configuration and I do not believe that this is an appropriate area for > us to stick our noses. Still, I think it would be great to see some > proposals on how we could implement full variant support, we could then > go to the server folk with it and see what they think. Speaking as one of the "server folk", this sounds like a very sensible suggestion. It seems to me that variant support can reasonably be abstracted from most of the rest of server config, except, err, variant support. The interesting question is one of efficiency - how does the server know a resource varies without taking a double filesystem hit for _every_ access? Well ... that's one of the interesting questions. Cheers, Ben. -- Ben Laurie Phone: +44 (181) 994 6435 Email: ben@algroup.co.uk Freelance Consultant and Fax: +44 (181) 994 6472 Technical Director URL: http://www.algroup.co.uk/Apache-SSL A.L. Digital Ltd, Apache Group member (http://www.apache.org) London, England. Apache-SSL author
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