- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 14:47:31 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Roy T. Fielding: > >>Transparent content negotiation *does not exchange feature sets over >>the wire*. Efficient wire encodings of feature sets are therefore >>irrelevant. > >Then you don't intend proxies to negotiate on behalf of the user agent. Yes I do, both proxies and origin servers could negotiate on behalf of the agent. For the wire issues involved, see section 4.2 of draft-ietf-http-rvsa-v10-01.txt. But to allow for remote variant selection, you only need to send *partial* information about the feature set over the wire, not the complete set. For a correctly optimising client, the size of this partial information, will be *much* smaller than the size of the complete feature set: the size of the partial information will be related to the number of features the origin server actually negotiates on. See the drafts for the details. >....Roy Koen.
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