- From: Mike Cowlishaw <mfc@vnet.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 94 19:10:19 GMT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU> writes: > Current practice is (a) -- it just doesn't work any other way with > existing servers. OK, thanks. Now I know what code to write, this weekend, and you know at least one sentence that needs to be added to the Internet Draft. > Ummm, I think (b) and (c) are confused, but these are reasonable questions. > The problem is that the HTTP spec must define not only origin servers, but > proxies, gateways, and client usage of HTTP as well. We (as in the authors) > will have to clarify this in the next version. Agreed. By the way, if there's something I can do to help, let me know. > Perhaps a section on minimal compliance is called for. It's hard to find a 'good' standard that doesn't at least try and provide one (and it's not always easy--a 'COPYFILE' command satisfies many programming language standards, for example :-) Mike Cowlishaw
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