- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 May 98 11:05:03 MDT
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
"Adam M. Donahue" <adam@cyber-guru.com> writes:
> 4) <http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1998q2/0069.html>
>
> I think allowing TE: identity; q=0 is a bad idea. I think "identity"
> should always be allowed.
I thought Jerrfey Mogul made a good point about wanting to forbid
identity when compression would be highly desireable (as in the
case where bandwidth is very expensive). However, I agree with
you that since chunked encoding is _always_ acceptable it seems
somewhat silly to disallow identity in that case. So...
I probably wasn't clear enough in that message. For Accept-Encoding,
"identity; q=0" is presumably justified by the point I made, but
I finished that message by saying "the rationale that applied to
Accept-Encoding probably does not apply here." I.e., while I'm
not sure I agree with Dave Kristol that "TE: identity; q=0" is a
"bad idea", I didn't mean to imply that I thought it was necessarily
a good idea, either.
-Jeff
P.S.: I've never seen my name spelled like *that* before :-)
Received on Thursday, 14 May 1998 11:06:41 UTC