- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 04:48:50 PDT
- To: dror@vocaltec.com
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, dror@vocaltec.com
I'd be more comfortable with this and other proposals if the original data were delivered with a 'content-ID' that was unique to the particular content being delievered, and any follow-up request for partial delivery were indexed not by the original URL but by the content-ID itself. (The lack of a content-ID would be a signal that the object wasn't suitable for partial transmission or that the server didn't support such.) The content-ID could also be used as a GET IF-DIFFERENT key, since the content-ID would change when the content changed. Content-ID is required to be globally unique. (It might even be a URN, but who knows?)
Received on Sunday, 27 August 1995 04:52:27 UTC