RE: [ACTION-634] CT guidelines and WAP1 gateways

Experience from the field seems to indicate that quite a few WAP1 gateways don't actually obey the no-transform directive ... so we could water it down a bit and say that there is the possibility of mis-operation.

Jo



> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-bpwg-ct-request@w3.org [mailto:public-bpwg-ct-request@w3.org]
> On Behalf Of Francois Daoust
> Sent: 04 February 2008 11:03
> To: public-bpwg-ct
> Subject: [ACTION-634] CT guidelines and WAP1 gateways
> 
> 
> Per ACTION-634, I'm supposed to write a note to include in our
> guidelines to warn the readers that most of the guidelines are not
> compatible with WAP1 gateways as they would fail to transform WML to
> WMLC when they encounter a HTTP Cache-Control: no-transform header.
> 
> Here is my proposal:
> 
> -----
> Warning: Incompatibility with WAP1 gateways
> 
> This document recommends the use of the Cache-Control: no-transform HTTP
> header by the origin server, with a view to controlling the content
> transformation proxy and in particular to preventing any kind of content
> transformation.
> 
> The Cache-Control: no-transform directive applies to all the
> intermediaries between the origin server and the user agent. In
> particular, WAP1 gateways would obey the directive and would fail to
> compile WML into WMLC. Failure to do so would break the content delivery
> to the user agent.
> 
> As a consequence, these guidelines cannot be used to deliver content
> through WAP1 gateways.
> -----
> 
> It could go in the "2.2 Objectives" section formatted as a note with a
> different background color. Or maybe at some other place, it certainly
> doesn't have to be the first thing readers see.
> 
> François.
> 
> 
>

Received on Monday, 4 February 2008 11:19:10 UTC