- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 11:10:43 -0500 (CDT)
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
According to Daniel DuBois: > > >- send small Accept without *: risk getting responses with inferior quality > > Inferior according to the server, maybe. Not inferior according to the > client. The client is perfectly happy with what they got, because they > asked for it! > Maybe you didn't understand the point. It is very expensive for the client to fully ask for what it wants. If it asks less than fully there is a good chance the client will not be happy with what it gets. This is a problem and "Live with it" is not the solution. I think that the ultimate answer has to be something like always use reactive negotiation if there are muliple variants of a document. There could be a small number of exceptions (e.g. gif/jpg), but then you have the question of what can be an exception. John Franks
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