Re: Accept-Charset support from John D. Pritchard on 1996-12-15 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from October to December 1996)

From: John D. Pritchard <jdp@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:16:54 -0500
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Cc: keld@dkuug.dk, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-international@w3.org
Message-Id: <199612150016.TAA00415@bourbon.cs.columbia.edu>

> I'll ask again: could you demonstrate two equivalent documents that
> you might want to use content negotiation to distinguish between,
> where accept-charset (as an expression of capability) and
> accept-language (as an expression of language) are inadequate to
> distinguish between them?

using URIs for agent interaction there's every reason why i would want to
use media types to negotiate formats or interfaces.  


 -john

Received on Saturday, 14 December 1996 16:20:06 UTC