- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:45:01 PDT
- To: koen@win.tue.nl
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, koen@win.tue.nl
> If you can think of something shorter than `Negotiate: tcn', please
> let me know.
How about including "tcn" (no /) in the Accept header?
It would also shorten the 'Vary:' response header.
GET /paper HTTP/1.1
Host: x.org
User-Agent: WuxtaWeb/2.4
Accept: tcn, text/html, application/postscript, */*
"I will accept a rendering which is really just a list of other
renderings".
I had some fantasy where 'tcn' was like 'multipart/alternative' and
{"paper.html.en" 0.9 {type text/html} {language en}},
{"paper.html.fr" 0.7 {type text/html} {language fr}},
{"paper.ps.en" 1.0 {type application/postscript} {language en}}
was thought of as a shorthand for:
================================================================
Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="#"
--#
Content-type: Message/External-body;access-type=URL;URL="paper.ps.en"
Content-type: text/html
Content-language: fr
Content-quality: 0.7
--#
Content-type: Message/Externalbody;access-type=URL;URL="paper.html.fr"
Content-type: application/postscript
Content-language: en
Content-quality: 1.0
--#--
================================================================
Received on Tuesday, 24 September 1996 15:48:50 UTC