- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 18:05:40 -0800
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Dan writes:
> As query routing and hierarchical caching get deployed, I think it
> needs to go both ways: the server should be able to give back some
> variation on the "404 redirected" response that says "4?? redirected
> to multiple replicas" Also, the client needs to be able to request
> "GET any of these replicas..."
Funny that...I just added a "305 Multiple Choices" to the 1.1 spec last
night for the same purpose, but for handling redirection with URC sets.
The response would be a document, either text/html or urc/*, from
which the choice can be selected manually or automatically. Possible
media subtypes for urc would include
urc/http HTTP headers
urc/usmarc US-MARC data set
urc/iafa IAFA template
urc/tei TEI SGML header elements
...
I can think of many possiblities (some good, some bad), but this way
the URC can be protocol-independent and we can let the market decide
which is the "best" format.
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>
Received on Saturday, 28 January 1995 18:11:07 UTC