- From: Peter J Churchyard <pjc@trusted.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:03:05 -0500 (EST)
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
I would like to propose that content negotiation is removed from http 1.1 Thus accept: headers are ignored. Greatly simplifies caching decisions since response == entity. I beleive that very little content negotiation takes place (even within this archive you see people explicitly refering different versions of papers..) The assumtion that current content negotiation makes is that there is no prior knowledge. In most cases a user will have selected a specific URL in a previous page they have retrieved. This proposal removes large areas that are causing concerns in the current review process and merely reflects current practice. Without having dynamic content retrieval allows micro servers to return pre-canned responses. Few CGI scripts return more that one variation etc etc. No intelligent server mechanism is a intelligent as the dumbest human.. Without it, I feel that 1.1 will meet the goals stated in section 1.1 Purpose If you feel that it is a must then the simplest case is to return a precanned entity that in some standard format lists the URL's and the content types each represents and then let the client do all the work. Pete. -- The TIS Network Security Products Group has moved! voice: 301-527-9500 x123 fax: 301-527-0482 2277 Research Boulevard, 5th Floor, Rockville, MD 20850
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