- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:17:48 -0400 (EDT)
- To: fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu, jg@pa.dec.com
- Cc: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
"Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu> wrote: > > JG: > >I've changed all references to inbound to upstream and outbound to downstream > >in the document. > > YIKES! Please don't do that. Every stream (request or response) has both > an upstream (where it came from) and a downstream (where it is going) > based on the direction of the stream. In contrast, inbound and > outbound refer to the request path where the origin server is always > the most inbound server and the user agent is always the most outbound. > In other words, the first two change directionality based on whether > it is a request or a response, whereas the second two do not. I'm inclined to agree with Roy, with the following additional caveat: please define "upstream" and "downstream". They always confuse me and, I suspect, others. Please don't say "it's obvious". I don't know whether requests flow upstream or downstream. Dave Kristol
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