- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 22:47:38 -0800
- To: Roman Czyborra <czyborra@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> I've got two questions regarding 5.4.6 From
>
> 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:...">
Some people "forget" on purpose. A link is more appropriate in this case.
> 2. Why is it an addr-spec only instead of a full RFC822 mailbox?
Because for some reason I never noticed the mailbox definition (I just
did when I looked at RFC 1123). That will be fixed.
....Roy T. Fielding Department of ICS, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>
Received on Thursday, 23 March 1995 23:05:26 UTC