- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 14:01:25 PDT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
It might improve net efficiency (and possibly allow servers to precompute information or ignore these headers if they don't care) to package together those things that are configuration specific (accept, accept-encoding, accept-charset, accept-language and user-agent:) and send them by reference, e.g., the client sends: accept-hash: NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN where NNNNNNNNNNNNNN is the MD5 of the omitted headers; the server sends back an error return if it actually needs the fields. This would be useful independent of whether the connection remains open: even if the connection closes, the information might affect a cache choice; even if the connection remains open, a proxy might want to send different header information when proxying for different clients. (Clearly this would be in 1.1; if HTTP were recast as ILU or CORBA, it would be done as a client object that the server could interrogate.)
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