RE: ACTION-816: Write some text for CT Appendix B.2

On Bryan's point 2, I didn't see anything in section B.2 of the new CT
draft about LINK elements (I assume you meant elements instead of
headers) but I did see reference to Cache-Control: private instead.  I
think the reference to Cache-Control: private makes more sense anyway in
this example, so I assume that is why you did it that way.

On including the HTTP headers--I wasn't sure how much detail to include.
I ended playing it safe and included maximum detail.  It turned out be
an interesting exercise, even though I left out the iso-8859-1 part.
:-)  I also noticed that I left out the reference to
http://www.w3.org/ns/ct in the Via header.

Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-bpwg-ct-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-bpwg-ct-request@w3.org]
> On Behalf Of Jo Rabin
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:31 AM
> To: Sullivan, Bryan
> Cc: public-bpwg-ct
> Subject: Re: ACTION-816: Write some text for CT Appendix B.2
> 
> 
> Thanks Sean - Bryan's point 2) makes sense to me, so I will add
> something like: because there are no link headers indicating alternate
> representations and no Vary header the proxy infers that ...
> 
> I'm also a bit uncertain about including the full HTTP headers, partly
> because I think it will make the text a little less readable, and
partly
> because I don't want us to be pulled up on things like the proxy
> forwarding the text/html response maybe should have added a
> ;charset=iso-8859-1 (if that was indeed the character encoding)
> 
> Really the point of this section is to illustrate the flow.
> 
> Jo
> 
> 
> 
> On 24/07/2008 06:45, Sullivan, Bryan wrote:
> > Hi Sean,
> > This is a reasonable flow for this scenario. A few suggestions:
> >
> > 1) Explain how "The CT proxy determines that this 200 response
equates
> > to a 406 and re-requests the web page from the origin server with
> > altered headers", or just reference the main text section where this
is
> > explained, or say "By implementation specific means, the CT
proxy..."
> >
> > 2) Do we have a caveat in the text that although the CT proxy can
> > "learn" ala "The CT proxy remembers that this website doesn't handle
> > mobile user agents properly..." that it could be mistaken in what it
> > thinks it has learned? Some sites already offer the ability to
switch
> > between a mobile and desktop version (or provide distinct URLs for
> > that). What one user has selected may not imply correctly what the
next
> > user should receive, since the decision on which representation to
send
> > may be based upon information other than the URL, e.g. a cookie,
which
> > the CT proxy is not designed to understand. If we assume that such a
> > flexible CP will always provide a "no-transform" indication in its
> > desktop content versions, then OK, but we should be explicit about
that.
> >
> > 3) Indent and use a fixed width font for the snoop details; this
makes
> > it easier to separate them from the text.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan Sullivan | AT&T
> >
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> > *From:* public-bpwg-ct-request@w3.org
> > [mailto:public-bpwg-ct-request@w3.org] *On Behalf Of *Sean Patterson
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:23 PM
> > *To:* public-bpwg-ct
> > *Subject:* ACTION-816: Write some text for CT Appendix B.2
> >
> > Example for section B.2 of CT Guidelines:
> >
> > The CT Proxy receives a request for a website that it hasn't
interacted
> > with before:
> >
> > GET / HTTP/1.1
> >
> > Host: www.reallycoolnonmobilesite.com
> >
> > User-Agent: MobilePhoneManufacturerInc 1000 (1.0)
> >
> > Accept:
> >
>
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plai
n;
> q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
> >
> > Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> >
> > Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> >
> > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> >
> > The CT Proxy forwards this request to the website:
> >
> > GET / HTTP/1.1
> >
> > Host: www.reallycoolnonmobilesite.com
> >
> > User-Agent: MobilePhoneManufacturerInc 1000 (1.0)
> >
> > Accept:
> >
>
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plai
n;
> q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
> >
> > Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> >
> > Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> >
> > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> >
> > Via: 1.1 ronco-ct.com (Ronco CT-o-matic/7.3)
> >
> > X-Forwarded-For: 10.1.1.200
> >
> > The CT proxy receives the response from the origin server for the
> website:
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:36:25 GMT
> >
> > Server: Apache
> >
> > Content-Type: text/html
> >
> > Content-Length: 156
> >
> > <html>
> >
> > <head>
> >
> > <title>Unsupported browser</title>
> >
> > </head>
> >
> > <body>
> >
> > Unsupported browser.  Please get a different one or use a CT proxy.
> >
> > </body>
> >
> > </head>
> >
> > The CT proxy determines that this 200 response equates to a 406 and
> > re-requests the web page from the origin server with altered
headers:
> >
> > GET / HTTP/1.1
> >
> > Host: www.reallycoolnonmobilesite.com
> >
> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16)
> > Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 Ronco CT-o-matic/7.3
> >
> > Accept: text/html;q=1.0, text/css; q=1.0, application/x-javascript;
> > q=1.0, text/plain;q=0.8, application/xhtml+xml;q=0.6,
> > application/x-httpd-php;q=0.1, */*;q=0, image/gif; q=1.0,
image/jpeg;
> > q=1.0, image/png; q=1.0
> >
> > Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> >
> > Accept-Encoding: identity;q=1.0, gzip;q=0.1, *;q=0
> >
> > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> >
> > Via: 1.1 ronco-ct.com (Ronco CT-o-matic/7.3)
> >
> > X-Forwarded-For: 10.1.1.200
> >
> > X-Device-User-Agent: MobilePhoneManufacturerInc 1000 (1.0)
> >
> > X-Device-Accept:
> >
>
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plai
n;
> q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
> >
> > X-Device-Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> >
> > The origin server returns the desktop version of the web page:
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:36:27 GMT
> >
> > Server: Apache
> >
> > Content-Type: text/html
> >
> > Content-Length: 29478
> >
> > ...29478 bytes of really cool HTML...
> >
> > The CT proxy transforms this web page into content displays well on
the
> > phone:
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:36:28 GMT
> >
> > Server: Ronco CT-o-matic/7.3
> >
> > Content-Type: text/html
> >
> > Content-Length: 14573
> >
> > Warning: 214 Transformation Applied
> >
> > ...14573 bytes of really cool transformed HTML...
> >
> > A few hours later, the CT proxy receives a request from a different
user
> > agent for the same web page:
> >
> > GET / HTTP/1.1
> >
> > Host: www.reallycoolnonmobilesite.com
> >
> > User-Agent: PhonesRUsInc XL 500 (3.0)
> >
> > Accept:
> >
>
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plai
n;
> q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
> >
> > Accept-Language: en-us
> >
> > Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> >
> > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> >
> > The CT proxy remembers that this website doesn't handle mobile user
> > agents properly and since the origin server has not indicated that
it
> > varies on the User-Agent header (no Vary header), the CT proxy sends
a
> > request with altered headers immediately:
> >
> > GET / HTTP/1.1
> >
> > Host: www.reallycoolnonmobilesite.com
> >
> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16)
> > Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 Ronco CT-o-matic/7.3
> >
> > Accept: text/html;q=1.0, text/css; q=1.0, application/x-javascript;
> > q=1.0, text/plain;q=0.8, application/xhtml+xml;q=0.6,
> > application/x-httpd-php;q=0.1, */*;q=0, image/gif; q=1.0,
image/jpeg;
> > q=1.0, image/png; q=1.0
> >
> > Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> >
> > Accept-Encoding: identity;q=1.0, gzip;q=0.1, *;q=0
> >
> > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> >
> > Via: 1.1 ronco-ct.com (Ronco CT-o-matic/7.3)
> >
> > X-Forwarded-For: 10.1.1.200
> >
> > X-Device-User-Agent: PhonesRUsInc XL 500 (3.0)
> >
> > X-Device-Accept:
> >
>
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plai
n;
> q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
> >
> > X-Device-Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> >
> > X-Device-Accept-Language: en-us
> >
> > The origin server again returns the desktop version of the web page:
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:45:06 GMT
> >
> > Server: Apache
> >
> > Content-Type: text/html
> >
> > Content-Length: 29478
> >
> > ...29478 bytes of really cool HTML...
> >
> > The CT proxy again transforms this web page into content displays
well
> > on the phone (the transformation will be different for this phone
since
> > the user agent is different):
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:45:07 GMT
> >
> > Server: Ronco CT-o-matic/7.3
> >
> > Content-Type: text/html
> >
> > Content-Length: 16412
> >
> > Warning: 214 Transformation Applied
> >
> > ...16412 bytes of really cool transformed HTML...
> >
> > Sean
> >

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