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

Oops. Actually, I thought you had said that quite a few WAP1 gateways DO 
obey the directive. No need to be that affirmative then. And no need to 
put that as a huge warning sign.

François.

Jo Rabin wrote:
> 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.
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> Jo
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>> -----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
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>> 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.
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>> Here is my proposal:
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>> -----
>> Warning: Incompatibility with WAP1 gateways
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> As a consequence, these guidelines cannot be used to deliver content
>> through WAP1 gateways.
>> -----
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>> 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.
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>> François.
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Received on Monday, 4 February 2008 12:16:01 UTC