- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:48:36 -0500
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Cc: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>, <ietf-http-ext@w3.org>
At 16:25 3/11/98 -0800, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >It wouldn't have to -- this particular use of OPTIONS is not resource >dependent. It is simply asking if the connection peer is capable of >unwrapping before handling the underlying request. For example, the >response might include a public key for use in encrypting the later >request such that only that peer can unwrap it. What I am saying is that there is a difference between the two statements: "I am capable of doing x" and "I will use x". The former is a hint, the latter is what actually is agreed upon. The classic example is news servers where on connection establishment you get a message saying "this server supports POST", but this can at any time be overruled by the posting policy on any of the news groups serviced by the server. I guess the question really is whether the server is seen as the authoritative party that can act on behalf of the resources it exports, or whether it just happens to be the most specific resolver for a particular set of resources. Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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