- From: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:17:45 -0700
- To: 'Gisle Aas' <aas@a.sn.no>, "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: "'http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com'" <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
>---------- >From: Roy T. Fielding[SMTP:fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU] >Sent: Friday, July 19, 1996 3:36 AM >To: Gisle Aas >Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com >Subject: Re: The Title header > >Hi Gisle, > >> Why and when did the Title: header disappear? (I find it in >> v11-spec-01, but not in v11-spec-06) > >Sometime between those drafts. It was removed because it wasn't being >used much, because it duplicates the purpose of Content-Description >in MIME, and because, like any Entity-Header, it can be used freely >without the need for standardization. Don't you mean "no standardization in HTTP"? If it is to be of more than private use, then it is extremely useful to have a spec somewhere that says what it means, so that everyone uses it in the same way to mean the same thing. Said spec could even be a standard. Paul
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