- From: Graham Klyne <GK@dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 21:19:08 +0100
- To: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
- Cc: www-ccpp-protocol@w3.org
Hi Koen, At 09:06 PM 6/9/00 +0200, Koen Holtman wrote: >As I indicated before at WWW9, I believe that some text on how to >dereference these URIs would strengthen the protocol and make it more >extensible. I didn't really appreciate what you meant before, but now I see your text it looks very reasonable. >But aside from that, unless there are strong indications that header >length restrictions are really a problem, I'd rather see the whole >profile-diff header system disappear, with all information in these >headers put directly into the Profile header. Broadly, I agree, but probably for different reasons. Did you see the proposal I made to not try and carry profile structuring information as part of the protocol? >Also, if you are serious about making Vary more useful, you should >also specify a 'preferred http-ext namespace number' (for example 50), >which all user agents should use, if possible, when extending the >request with a Profile http-ext header. If user agents always >generate these numbers semi-randomly. then two xx-Profile: yyy headers >on two different requests but with the same yyy will seldom match >because they have a different xx number. Interesting point... isn't this something that might be addressed more generally in HTTP extensions? (I'm tempted to say that Vary: might be made extension-aware, but that's too tall an order.) #g ------------ Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)
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