- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:39:19 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Jeffrey Mogul: > [...] > (a) Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress, no-identity > /* an explicit "no identity-encoding wanted" token */ I like (a) best. The trouble with adding q values to this header is that it makes selecting the `best' encoding much more complicated (decoding short floats and finding the highest one is too complicated to do in a simple shell script, for example), and this would discourage the deployment of servers which know about encodings. I think that the knowledge that `gzip is better than compress is better than identity' can just as well be implemented at the server side, and implementing it there will be much cheaper. Another reason I like (a) is that there won't be any compatibility problems with existing servers. >-Jeff Koen.
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