- From: Albert Lunde <Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 22:00:55 -0500 (CDT)
- To: cshotton@biap.com
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> At 6:23 PM 4/17/95, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> >> Section 4.2 has a definition of ctext that differs from RFC 822,
> >> which also allows \ escapes of ( and ).
>
> I must've been asleep when this topic first came up. Of what possible use
> are comments in HTTP headers? I'd like to understand why big parser changes
> are going to be needed for something that *seems* to be of no value to the
> client or the server.
I suppose some of the value is in making the specification agree more
with MIME and USENET so that shared code and cross-protocol gateways
work more transparently. I really doubt we _need_ the full glory
of RFC822 comments most of the time.
--
Albert Lunde Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu
Received on Monday, 17 April 1995 20:08:06 UTC