- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 97 16:48:06 PST
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen writes:
Accept-Transfer = "Accept-Transfer" ":"
1#( t-codings [ ";" "q" "=" qvalue ] )
Shouldn't that be:
Accept-Transfer = "Accept-Transfer" ":"
#( t-codings [ ";" "q" "=" qvalue ] )
since one of your examples is:
Accept-Transfer:
(I know, I made the same mistake for Accept-Encoding in rev-00.)
Also, since (as Roy has pointed out) the requirement for protecting
Accept-Transfer with Connection makes requests somewhat verbose,
perhaps we should be using a shorter name ... "Accept-Trans"
would save 6 bytes per request.
I'm not even sure this header should be called "Accept-anything",
since it's a hop-by-hop mechanism and thus pretty much orthogonal
to content negotiation. Maybe "OK-Trans" (saving another 8 bytes
per request)? It's not as if any human being is supposed to be
reading these headers.
-Jeff
P.S.: OK, I *do* include HTTP implementors in the set of human
beings :-)
Received on Tuesday, 18 November 1997 16:53:37 UTC