- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:41:11 -0800
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Nov 29, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> It basically can't be implemented by web browsers. See for instance
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109553 ... We've tried
> it as well, broke the web, and then backed it out again.
No. It is pathetic that some vendors choose to drop features rather
than deploy version-specific workarounds, but not entirely unexpected.
The only thing that should be changed at this point is 14.14:
The value of Content-Location also defines the base URI for the
entity.
s/also defines/does not define/;
Such a change would not effect current practice and would still allow
Content-Location to be useful for all of the other reasons it exists
(none of which are broken by IIS or MSIE because they don't author).
> Perhaps Content-Base or so can be resurrected...
That is impossible without changing the HTTP version number.
....Roy
Received on Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:41:29 UTC