- From: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 23:13:52 -0400
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
>>>>> "LM" == Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> writes: LM> Perhaps this is another of those "it should go without saying", LM> but interworking of clients with all servers should be a LM> requirement of any extension to HTTP. While I generally agree with you on this, Larry, the logical conclusion to what you say above is that most extentions should become mandatory parts of HTTP. That will ensure opposition from someone to almost anything. The current situation with Digest Access authentication is unfortunately a good example of what can happen when there is not enough pressure created by the standard (or to be fair, by enough users) to cause the most important (large market share) vendors to deploy it. Those of us who have shipped it (or our users) can't really get much value from it. My hope is that once an agreed-upon TCN standard exists (even if only Experimental) that we will be able to show that it does solve a suffiently large part of the problem to create user support for it. -- Scott Lawrence EmWeb Embedded Server <lawrence@agranat.com> Agranat Systems, Inc. Engineering http://www.agranat.com/
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