- From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:16:38 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Mark Nottingham wrote: > To me, the biggest difference is that a UA is the end node; i.e., it is the > 'origin client' to compliment the 'origin server.' A proxy is a client, not > a user-agent. Ah yes. That's a very good point, but isn't it a bit too subtle to name an end-point "UA" while an end-point or proxy is called "client" ? I mean, if the distinction in the docs need to separate an end-point from a proxy, won't for example those (more explicit) terms be better to use then? -- / daniel.haxx.se
Received on Tuesday, 2 June 2009 07:15:49 UTC