- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:33:35 -0500
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 11/29/06, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > >> Perhaps Content-Base or so can be resurrected... > > > > That is impossible without changing the HTTP version number. > > It's not like HTTP is validated or anything. The whole HTTP specification > seems quite open to incremental additions and changes. Sure, but there are limits to HTTP extensibility. One limit is that you can't introduce extensions which change the meaning of the message such that existing agents would interpret it incorrectly. Content-Base is such an extension, hence the need for the version rev to protect those agents. Mark.
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