- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:50:55 -0600
- To: "Martin Nilsson" <nilsson@opera.com>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
"Martin Nilsson" wrote: > > And we can know if the request is coming from XHR. We can also know > if the resource is inspected, saved, etc. since it is our UA code. > And intermediaries? How are they to know any of this, since it isn't *their* UA code? > > The response code doesn't have any semantic value here though, since > the UA already knows that the resource is transformed. > Maybe not to you, but without those semantics, how can intermediaries participate in the communication? That's where the semantic value comes in -- even if it isn't relevant to you, interoperability is relevant to the other components you don't have control over, is the point here. -Eric
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