- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 18:20:01 -0800
- To: Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>
- Cc: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Dave Raggett writes:
> [...]
>> 11) Defined semantics for metainformation
>> o Title, Link, Base, Content-MD5, Content-Language, etc.
> ***********
> Sorry If I'm completly off base but could this be changed
> into "Content-Checksum:". I'd rather not tie MD5 particular
> *algorithm* to the general 'checksum' *functionality*, (just in case
> MD6 pops out in few monthes for instance...) {Though I currently use
> MD5 as the algorithm currently}
No, we are not going to replace a well-defined proposed standard with
a newly-defined invention. Using separate header fields for different
algorithms is just as applicable (and easier to parse) as any
parameterized generic header field.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Thursday, 2 November 1995 18:39:25 UTC