- From: <hallam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 13:10:35 -0400
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: hallam@w3.org
I think the problem here is language. As a general rule the order in which differently tagged headers appear is not significant, the order in which tags of the same name appears is significant. A proxy may alter the order of differrently named tags but not the order of tags with the same name. This area impinges on the PEP proposal, PEP is in part intended to solve this problem. Consider a document which is compressed, signed and encrypted in that order. It is essential that the transport prserves the information that this is the order in which the transformations occurred. The content encoding model is unfortunately limited. I don't think we should try to fix it now. I have a feeling that Jim and Larry would be upset if we were to start. Phill
Received on Wednesday, 10 April 1996 10:16:18 UTC