- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:10:58 +0100 (MET)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: frystyk@w3.org, mogul@pa.dec.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter: > >"accept-" request headers are handled specially by the 'vary' >header response. ?? In ther last version I saw, Vary did not treat any field as special. >Since this doesn't apply end-to-end and might >be introduced by an intermediate, I don't think that it should >be called "Accept-" anything. Roy's suggestion of making this >an option to 'Connection' might be reasonable, but I'm suspicious >of adding this last-minute feature into a Draft Standard. I feel that making a clean separation between content and transfer compression is a cleanup we should have made a long time ago, and on that grounds I think it is reasonable to add it as a last-minute feature. It is not really critical whether it is called Accept- or connection: something. I like the connection alternative slightly better. And no gunky parameters about compression quality or dictionaries please -- adding these would take the whole thing way beyond a 1.1 cleanup, and how are we ever going to claim two independent implementations for such things if we add them? >Larry Koen.
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