- From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 04:00:24 +0100
- To: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: Nick Shelness <shelness@lotus.com>, Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>, IETF working group on HTML in e-mail <mhtml@segate.sunet.se>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 12.57 -0800 98-01-15, Jim Gettys wrote: > The problem we have is syntax and implementation, not semantics. > Lets clear this hurdle before we get into the meat of what you are trying > to achieve, and whether your suggestion fits into the architecture of the > Web, and my apologies of jumping into the meat in some of my early messages > on this topic. > > Roy Fielding's point is that the syntax change required to allow the header > name Content-Location to have multiple fields (needed as that is what >proxies > typically do if they find multiple headers of the same name), is a problem, > and one that may (likely) break exisiting implementations. But what I suggested what to allow only one field, and one value, with the name Content-Location in each heading, and to define a new header field Content-Location-Alternate for cases where more than one is needed. That would avoid your problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme
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