- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:29:25 +0100
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Mark Nottingham wrote: > My concern is that many implementations treat content-coding like > transfer-codings, in some ways; that is, they layer it in automatically > (e.g., mod_gzip). The confluence of this with things like byteranges, > etag comparison, etc. may be quite prone to bugs. > > You'd also start to get into discussions like "can't JPEG just be a > content-coding of GIF?" and so forth. The media type system isn't > perfect by any means, but I think it's a better fit for this type of thing. >... I agree with that, but right now the spec doesn't really state that. Should we change it? BR, Julian
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