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Re: Updated proposal for OPTIONS issue

From: Ross Patterson <Ross_Patterson@ns.reston.vmd.sterling.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 97 11:58:11 EDT
Message-Id: <199707301609.AA10986@reston.vmd.sterling.com>
To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com> writes:

>14.QQQ Non-Compliance
>...
>        Non-Compliance =  "Non-Compliance" ":" 1#non-compliance-option
>
>        proxy-host = host [ ":" port ]
>
>        non-compliance-option = compliance-option "@" proxy-host

This implies that non-compliance-option allows parameters, e.g.:

   Non-Compliance: MyNameSpace=MyThing;MyParam@Somebody.Else.Proxy

Is this an accident of syntax?  If not, what is the interpretation of
such a header?  Two possibilities come to mind immediately:

   1) Somebody.Else.Proxy doesn't support the MyNameSpace=MyThing item.

   2) Somebody.Else.Proxy supports the MyNameSpace=MyThing item, but
      doesn't support it with the MyParam parameter.

Ross Patterson
Sterling Software, Inc.
VM Software Division
Received on Wednesday, 30 July 1997 09:40:57 UTC

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