- From: Mitra <mitra@path.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 15:44:35 -0800
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 2:22 PM 2/12/95, Larry Masinter wrote: >While we can imagine changing HTTP's GET to include the full URL or to >ask browsers to include the full URL in the header, fixing it in HTTP >at this point will not have the desired effect of allowing service >providers to avoid allocating two IP addresses to the same host. I think this could be made to work, by a combination of client and server strategy. If we assume an intermediate state where half the clients support a full URL in the request, and others only do a partial, then a upgraded server receiving a full URL knows what to return, for a partial URL it puts up a single page advertising the different top level URLs it knows about, and - as with the migration strategy for form support - URLs of up-to-date browsers. - Mitra ======================================================================= Mitra mitra@path.net Internet Consulting (415)488-0944 <http://www.path.net/mitra> fax (415)488-0988
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