- From: Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 13:51:51 -0400
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>> HTTP uses Internet Media Types [13] (formerly referred to as MIME
>> Content-Types [5]) in order to provide open and extensible data
>> typing and type negotiation.
I'll remove the " and type negotiation".
>> Request-Header = Authorization ; Section 8.2
>> | From ; Section 8.8
>> | If-Modified-Since ; Section 8.9
>> | Referer ; Section 8.14
>> | User-Agent ; Section 8.16
>
>> Request-Header field names can be extended only via a change in the
>> protocol version. Unknown header fields are treated as
>> Entity-Header fields.
>
>I assume this is an oversight, certainly it wasn't intentional to make
>"Accept:" illegal in HTTP/1.0.
No, it was not an oversight, and a BCP can't make anything "illegal".
....Roy T. Fielding Department of ICS, University of California, Irvine USA
Visiting Scholar, MIT/LCS + World-Wide Web Consortium
(fielding@w3.org) (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
Received on Thursday, 21 September 1995 10:55:13 UTC