- From: Chuck Shotton <cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 08:55:27 -0600
- To: Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: Mike Cowlishaw <mfc@vnet.ibm.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 8:04 AM 2/12/95, Marc VanHeyningen wrote: >I wouldn't quite agree there. Other site-level conventions >(e.g. /robots.txt, /site.idx, a file for site-level description >information if one is made, etc.) could also benefit from this header. >It also could permit a smoother migration of name; for example, if you >need to change the name of your server, this header could permit the >old and new names to be mapped together briefly but permit logging of >which Referer: URLs are still pointing to the old name. > >That said, I'm inclined to agree that the benefits are not terribly >overwhelming. Time for $.02 from the peanut gallery. The benefits are not terribly overwhelming, it serves only a few specific purposes, and it involves the addition of a single request header. Given that this has been discussed and requested and discussed again for the past 6 months, why not mollify the people who want this feature and simply add it to the spec? Rather than continuing to thrash this around repeatedly in e-mail, just write the paragraph about it in the standard and let the standards process finish off the discussion. One of the complaints many have about HTML and HTTP is that the standards process is creeping at a snail's pace, forcing commercial developers to strike out on their own when the standards "keepers" ignore or discard their requests for feature incorporation into the DRAFT standards. In the grand scheme of things, this feature requires NO modifications to existing servers and about a 2 line modification to clients that want to be compliant. Let's stop talking about it and put a strawman in the standard! If it turns out to be a bad idea, we can delete it. That's been done before. In the meantime, it'll stop complaints that the standards process isn't responsive and accomodate the people who want this feature. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Shotton cshotton@biap.com http://www.biap.com/ cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu "I am NOT here."
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