- From: David Robinson <drtr1@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 12:19 GMT
- To: fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU
- Cc: drtr1@cam.ac.uk, uri@bunyip.com
It seems that I wasn't sufficiently precise with my language; what I was trying to explain to Owen Rees what was wrong with Base: headers taking precedence over document content. [All you other comments are valid] > > Why distinguish message > > headers from other retrieval contexts? > >It does not. Message headers ARE the retrieval context -- the document >is encapsulated inside the message. But it does! You talk about retrieval context in section 3.3, but a base URL within message headers is mentioned in section 3.2. The implication, for a casual reader, is that message headers are not retrieval context. This is also shown graphically, with a box between the two. Hence, as Owen Rees assumed, the relative priority of message headers and document content was chosen arbitrarily. I was trying to suggest that the base URL in message headers should be explained as simply another example of retrieval context. David.
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