Re: Timezone information in HTTP

Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2007, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
>>>   Just realized that caching proxies should consider documents that were
>>> returned for different timezones as different. In other words, two
>>> requests with different Timezone headers should be considered different.
>>> This introduces an issue where two clients with different timezones ask
>>> for a document. Either the cache need to record the request TZ or the
>>> server side must return a header like 'Requested-Timezone' where the
>>> request timezone would be included.
>>> ...
>> Vary: Timezone
> 
> Thank you (and Henrik) about this. I didn't knew about the Vary header. I 
> added this to the draft. Since there was no further feedback I changed the 
> timezone string from POSIX to RFC3339 time-zone, as you suggested.
> 
> I've some more questions:
> 
> a) What is the proper procedure for working on this draft? Should this be 
> submitted by the WG instead of me?

There is no WG (yet), and even if there would be one it probably 
wouldn't be in scope of the charter.

But it *is* good to discuss it here. For instance, I'm not convinced 
it's the right approach; HTML5 is adding markup to allow user agents to 
do smarter things with time information.

> b) I've added you to the Acknowledgement section. Is this correct or should 
> you be listed in the authors?

No, that's fine. I just tryng to by helpful to get the format and the 
editorial issues right.

Here's another one: I think currently the spec is not clear about 
whether it uses the RFC2616 or the RFC4234 ABNF format...

> ...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 11 June 2007 10:02:14 UTC