- From: Albert Lunde <Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 15:35:44 -0600
- To: Roman Czyborra <czyborra@cs.tu-berlin.de>, HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
At 10:15 PM 3/23/95, Roman Czyborra wrote:
>> >1. Why is From: only a request header? It would be nice to provide
>> > the address of the file owner so you know where to send comments
>> > if the author forgot to add a <LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:...">
>>
>> Sure, it'd be nice. It's probably impossible to implement in an efficient
>> fashion on most servers today.
>
>No, not at all. On Unix, every file already has an owner, and I could
>hack my httpd in no time to construct an email address from it.
In real life the Unix UID that "owns" a document may have nothing to do
with the author, for example on a CWIS where everything is posted by a few
people.
There are already HTML solutions in wide use for indicating/contacting the
author of HTML docs, including <LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:..."> and
mailto: HREFs in the body of the document. It's not worth messing with the
HTTP protocol to add another, IMHO.
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Albert Lunde Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu
Received on Thursday, 23 March 1995 13:45:28 UTC