- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 00:16:58 +0100 (MET)
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Jeffrey Mogul: > [...] >Koen writes: > 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? > >Well, Henrik has already promised one (right, Henrik?) and I would >guess that he is right; adding a parameter parser for Accept-TE >is relatively easy if you've already had to right the same parser >for "chunked". > >But beyond that, if we don't add parameters NOW, we will never >be able to do so, because then there will be an incompatibility >with the installed base. Let me clarify my position: I think it would be OK to add an extensibility mechanism of the usual ;name=value type, but we should not define lots of complicated name=value pairs right now. >-Jeff Koen.
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