- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 15:48:43 -0400
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
At 11:09 AM 5/19/97 MDT, Jeffrey Mogul wrote: >As Larry says, at the bottom of the hierarchy we want >an enumerated type (essentially opaque) for specifying a feature >tag "on the wire". We could just as easily use small integers >for these, but using ASCII tags might have some benefit in >debugging things. In fact, if we made a rule that ALL new HTTP >header-names and tags were to be composed of randomly chosen >(but unique) small integers, we would avoid a lot of useless debate. >HTTP is for computers to talk to each other, not for humans. This is in fact exactly what PEP is all about: Providing a mechanism for defining a unique, dynamic mapping between an extension identified by a URL and the local representation in the form of random (short) headers. The semantics of the extension is for humans, the wire representation is most definitely not. Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org> World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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