- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:33:24 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@appliedtheory.com>
- Cc: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>, mogul@pa.dec.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Patrick McManus wrote: > In a previous episode Koen Holtman said... > :: > :: 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 find this a very persuasive argument.. Content Encodings are > something we are intending to deal with aggressively in current and > upcoming server extension projects.. (CGI, fast CGI, nsapi, > whatever..) If this is the type of functionality that's going to be > handled by a lot of different applications (as opposed to a handful of > base web servers) simplicity is paramount... that unfortunately means > no q values. > I also vote for no q-values. Perhaps identity/no-identity could be shortened to id/no-id. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.edu
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