- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 97 16:57:57 MDT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Phillip M. Hallam-Baker writes:
I dislike the * proposal intensely. Best leave punctuation for use
in regular expressions and separators. It is always a mistake to
use a punctuation mark to stand for a symbol IMHO. identity is OK
by my reconning although NULL is shorter and may be more
descriptive in this context.
There are already numerous places in RFC2068 where the "*" syntax
is used as a "wildcard", including
OPTIONS method
Accept:
Accept-Language:
If-Match:
If-None-Match:
Vary:
And its use has also been last-called in the Content-Range header.
To me, it seems odd that Accept-Charset and Accept-Encoding don't
already allow a "*" value, given that Accept and Accept-Language do.
-Jeff
Received on Monday, 21 July 1997 17:06:58 UTC