Re: Server-side roles in the HTTP

• From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
• Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 08:50:32 +1000
• To: kugler@us.ibm.com
• Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
• Message-ID: <025101bef595$8fde5f00$0301a8c0@mnot.net>

> In that case, I think you want the "Accept-Encoding" header, not TE. (Make
sure
> you're looking at a fresh copy of the spec.)  The issue is of
content-encoding
> vs. transfer-encoding.

No, I was thinking of transfer-encoding, which can be used for
compression-type services.

Content-Encoding would be interesting, but potentially it really isn't as
user-transparent as most of the other facilities I'm talking about. Will
think about it...

Received on Saturday, 4 September 1999 13:53:55 UTC