Re: Fwd:HTTP server driven content negotiation
From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (frystyk@w3.org)
Date: Mon, Mar 08 1999
Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990308130050.03587e70@localhost>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 13:00:50 -0500
To: "Michael A. Dolan" <miked@tbt.com>, Johan Hjelm <hjelm@w3.org>, Philipp Hoschka <ph@w3.org>, www-tv@w3.org
From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd:HTTP server driven content negotiation
At 07:57 3/8/99 -0800, Michael A. Dolan wrote:
>I understand. My thinking was that one could use/invent Request fields
>that might be useful. For example:
>
> Vary X-profile1
>or
> Vary Accept x-profiles/1
>
>I've probably buggered the syntax up a little, but you get the idea...
Ah - OK, but that would require that the recipient (a cache) knows these
headers. If there is no cache then vary doesn't make much sense. I was
under the impression that there were no cache anticipated in your model (or
at least not a cache that would have to deal with different client profiles
in which case broadcast doesn't seem to make sense in the first place).
Or am I missing something?
Henrik
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