- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 22:51:57 -0700
- To: jg@w3.org
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
The messages on this thread in support of no-transform (or, I should
say, in support of transformations) may be accurate, but they do
not reflect what is currently specified as "no-transform".
Any change in image formats is a change in media type, not content coding.
In any case, I do not consider such a beast to be a cache. If it is
changing the content of the messages, then it is acting as an
inter-protocol gateway. As such, it has nothing to do with cache-control
and should be left to a more complex negotiating apparatus like PEP.
It is clear that this thing is not ready for prime time, and therefore
should be removed from the proposed standard. I have many more relevant
and better specified additions to HTTP which have been removed for the
same reason.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Wednesday, 5 June 1996 23:04:50 UTC