- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:32:04 +0100
- To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
* Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: >On 20 Nov 2007, at 21:54, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > >> It's up to the implementer omho. Implementation detail on how to >> behave when seeing things outside specifications. > >I strongly disagree — as an implementer, I want to be able to >implement HTTP in such a way that it works in the real world (which, >in places, relies on totally unspecified behaviour found in browsers) >by just reading the spec. If RFC2616bis doesn't address this, other >documentation on this will likely appear scattered over the web >outwith the HTTP spec. If I cannot just implement HTTP from the spec >in such a way that is interoperable with real-world servers, then IMHO >the spec is too vague and I have to waste my time reverse-engineering >other implementations (likely still not in a way 100% interoperable >with real-world servers). There is no contradiction. You can leave this up to implementers and point out real-world problems and how they might be addressed at the same time. Further, while you might want suggestions for implementing a "web browser", others might want suggestions for implementing some web service client, and there may well be differences. Documentation on such real world problems would be very welcome, you can easily put them into a separate draft and publish it alongside the Working Group's documents. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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