- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:21:37 -0500 (CDT)
- To: jg@zorch.w3.org
- Cc: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>, 'Gisle Aas' <aas@a.sn.no>, "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>, "'http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com'" <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
On Fri, 19 Jul 1996 jg@zorch.w3.org wrote: > I made an editorial decision as editor that it should go (on discussion with > Roy), as duplications of Mime, with different names, is Evil. > > In some future version of HTTP, one could note what headers in HTTP are adopted > directly from MIME. Is current practice relevant? I can cite you hundreds of servers using it. True this is a tiny fraction of all servers. I don't think it is fair to call this decision an editorial decision. If you had decided to change the name to the corresponding MIME header that could be called editorial. As it is, a decision was made that prevents its use in other than ad hoc ways. This is a functionality which HTTP used to have and no longer does. Don't some search engines use it? In fact, I would find an argument to make it mandatory persuasive. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.edu
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