- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:31:00 -0400
- To: jg@w3.org
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
The current wording in section 14.20 is nonsense as it renders all existing HTTP/1.1 servers not compliant: The Expect request-header field is used to indicate that particular server behaviors are required by the client. A server that does not understand or is unable to comply with any of the expectation values in the Expect field of a request MUST respond with appropriate error status. People not having read the spec before or not knowing about HTTP implementations will get very surprised if they expect this behavior. The MUST MUST be changed to something like this: The Expect request-header field can be used to indicate that particular server behaviors are preferred by the client. The client is not guaranteed that the server recognizes the information in an Expect request header field. The stronger semantics of a MUST is captured by the Mandatory proposal which is under way on the HTTP-EXT mailing list. Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
Received on Tuesday, 28 July 1998 11:38:23 UTC