- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:43:37 +0100 (MET)
- To: frystyk@w3.org (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
- Cc: lawrence@agranat.com, paulle@microsoft.com, ietf-http-ext@w3.org
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen: > [...] >This is an unavoidable problem when multiple extensions share a single, >global header field space and no central registry can hinder this. The >alternative is to pass all extension information as parameters: > > M-GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host: foobar > Man: "http://screwball.org/skidoo.html"; Skidoo=abc, > "http://nutcase.org/skidoo.html"; Skidoo=def > >which avoids the problem altogether. I highly prefer this alternative of passing all extension info as parameters in the Man header. Dynamically allocating collision-free headers is so difficult that is is not worth the trouble (see my comments on an earlier PEP draft for a discussion). Why add a complicated indirection layer if you do not need one? If people really want headers, the draft can tell them to register them in the upcoming IANA header registry. >Henrik Koen.
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