Re: Approved TAG finding: Authoritative Metadata

On 8/18/06, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com> wrote:
>
> You raise an important practical point, but I would imagine that the
> same tool vendors who are doing it wrong now would again mindlessly add
> "authoritative=yes" to their generated headers, regardless of the
> document's actual content type.  Then, to distinguish that misuse from
> really authoritative usage we'd have to add yet another attribute
> "really-authoritative=yes".  And then the same thing would happen all
> over again, and we'd have to add "really-really-authoritative=yes", and
> so on.
>

Well there's really no incentive for a HTTP or app server vendor to do
that. Doing so wouldn't improve behavior against browsers, while
enabling admins to fine tune their content type authority *would*
improve behavior against browsers.


Hugh