- From: Rohit Khare <khare@pest.w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 13:30:00 -0500
- To: HTTP WG maillist <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Roy wrote: > No, because Allow refers to the allowed methods of a > particular resource and the others refer to the > capabilities of the application on the server end of the > client's immediate connection. Therefore, Allow is > independent of the means of communication (the > intermediaries involved), whereas OPTIONS and Public > refer to the capabilities of the currently communicating > neighbor. I wanted to note as an aside that this is precisely the kind of issue that PEP 'scope' addresses. Rather than per-header table lookups that imply properties-about-orignal-resource, properties-about-resource-as-caches, properties-about-immediate-connection, and properties-about-origin-services, PEP scope and strength tagging allows proxies to reason exactly about disposing of unknown features. See Section 3.4 and Appendix A.3 for more details: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-http-pep.html Back to the debate at hand, Rohit Khare
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