- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:40:46 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Roy Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> ...
>> Closing issue. Julian, at some point it would probably be good to update
>> the change note to reflect that this wasn't done just because of poor
>> implementation take-up; the reason behind that was that using C-L for base
>> caused problems with conneg and other situations (IIRC).
>> ...
>
> I'll happily do that, if somebody could remind what these problems
> are/were...
Well, the main issue is lack of implementation on client side, bad CL
headers sent by servers especially when servers are behind a front-end.
(like CL: http://10.1.2.80:8080/foo ), making it hard to rely on in the
general case.
--
Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras.
~~Yves
Received on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 09:40:52 UTC