- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 07:57:01 PDT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
One of the technical issues that came up in recent discussions about "Push" technology is the usefulness, for some applications, for a globally unique content-ID. While "content-ID" might be a useful header in a response, there's no corresponding request header, since the etag is only guaranteed unique relative to the given URL. Can 'if-match' be extended to use content-IDs as well as ETags? Or, can we add some space of 'globally unique etags'? At the same time, there's a desire to have a kind of content-ID that is based on MD5 or SHA to allow generation of the content-ID from the content-MD5 value, for example, or to have it independently generated. I don't think these are necessarily action items for HTTP-WG, but I thought I'd raise the issues. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
Received on Sunday, 14 September 1997 15:43:22 UTC