- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:19:43 +0200
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Apr 21, 2006, at 00:18, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Make it a SHOULD and twiddle your CR exit criteria to take it into
> account; in the long term, implementations will sort themselves out.
My thoughts exactly.
> The real danger here is that the WG will be tempted to use the API
> to profile other parts of HTTP for convenience, or based on current
> implementations, as well. Please, don't.
Precisely. Anne raised concerns about exiting CR, but if we start
profiling HTTP we'll never get out of LC. I can already hear the
hordes clamouring "when you pry RFC 2616 from the impervious grasp of
my cold, dead fingers".
> I'd also note that Apache preserves the casing of HTTP method all
> the way through mod_cgi.
That's the case with all the server-side implementations that I'm
aware of.
--
Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Received on Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:19:25 UTC