- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:53:55 +1000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Roy Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
OK. As mentioned, C-L does other things besides set the base, so it seems like we just need to choose between the two proposals from Roy (or come up with another). Now issue #154; http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/154 On 07/04/2009, at 12:52 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> >> Anne and Ian, does this adequately encompass your issue? If other >> aspects are important, it would be helpful if you provided a succinct >> summary. > > IIRC, browsers have found it impossible to implement Content- > Location as > setting the base URI for a document without breaking significant > content > on the Web. So long as what HTTP defines is implementable in a > manner that > is compatible with legacy content, the issue would be resolved, I > think. > IMHO it is not critical whether this is done by making the header > have no > effect, have some other effect, or removing the header altogether > (though > the former seems pointless). > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E ) > \._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _ > \ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'-- > (,_..'`-.;.' -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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