- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:46:19 +1100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Well, if we leave the text how it is, it will have that effect... On 30/01/2009, at 7:29 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > 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 -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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