- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:32:44 -0600 (CST)
- To: Alex Hopmann <alex.hopmann@resnova.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Alex Hopmann wrote: > Peter Churchyard wrote: > >I would like to propose that content negotiation is removed from http 1.1 > Ouch! I really would like to resist this idea- I consider content > negotiation to be one of the greatest priorities of this group. The > currently popular content negotiation mechanism is user-agent: which is a > SERIOUS problem for the HTTP community to be able to have some sort of > common standards. > > That said, I must admit that I personally don't have any brilliant solutions > for the problems posed by content negotiation. I just think its too > important to abandon so quickly. It is certainly better to do nothing than to have have either a bad mechanism or a mechanism so complicated that it is never implemented. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.edu
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