- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:02:03 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: snowhare@netimages.com
- Cc: fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU, rsalz@osf.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Benjamin Franz: [...] > >By the way, a benefit of the alternate proposal for adding a new MIME type >of 'n/t' instead of a new 'Negotiate' header that no one has mentioned is >that it could be used *today* with the Apache 1.1.1 server's content >negotiation and .asis or .meta modules. The 'Negotiate' header can also be used *today* with a simple CGI script. I have such a script running under http://gewis.win.tue.nl/conneg-bin/stats. I'm not an expert on the internal apache module interfaces, but from what I have read, adding something which uses Negotiate is relatively simple. While most of this discussion boils down to a question of taste, there *is* a real technical argument against stuffing `n/t' into the Accept header: saying `Vary: Accept, Accept-Language' in stead of `Vary: Negotiate, Accept-Language' will greatly reduce the efficiency of Vary header based caching. [...] >I think that having a new MIME type 'n/t' is really the way to go rather >than a 'Negotiate:' (unimplemented by anyone yet) header. I have both implemented a script that looks for the Negotiate header, and a user agent that sends it. See http://gewis.win.tue.nl/~koen/conneg/. >Benjamin Franz Koen.
Received on Thursday, 26 September 1996 06:30:11 UTC