Re: Variant IDs

• From: David W. Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
• Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 20:25:02 -0800 (PST)
• To: HTTP Caching Subgroup <http-caching@pa.dec.com>
• Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960208202238.2129B-100000@jobe.shell.portal.com>

On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Larry Masinter wrote:

> 
> Servers that can convert to any of several different charset encodings
> will not want to supply a URI header for each.

Thanks for the reminder, the variant IDs were clearly applicable where
the server was unable or unwilling to identify all possible variations
but was able to know if a specific ID was applicable.

Dave

Received on Friday, 9 February 1996 04:40:42 UTC