Re: Variant-ID proposal

Paul Leach:
>
>I object to caches assigning variant-ids. If they're needed for
>pre-emptive content negotiation by caches based on what is the
>Alternates header, [....]

Variant-ids are not needed for this kind of negotiation, and I never
said they would be needed.

I am talking about caches assigning variant-ids because Jeff and Roy
seem to want a requirement that there is a variant-id in every
preemptively negotiated response.  I think such a requirement will just
lead to unnecessary complexity.  I have no idea _why_ they want to
require this, and I won't even rule out that I misunderstood their
messages, and that they do not want a variant-id in every negotiated
response at all, but will settle for a Content-Location header if there
is no variant-id.

Koen.

Received on Tuesday, 16 April 1996 23:38:40 UTC