- From: Slein, Judith A <JSlein@crt.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:21:37 -0400
- To: "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
The issue has been raised here about whether we might be making a mistake by encoding some of our request parameters in XML entity bodies. The thought is that this may force proxies to read the body of the message, something that they should not have to do. I guess there are several questions here: Are we currently forcing proxies to read message bodies? Are any of the parameters that are now in the message body ones that proxies have to know about? If so, should we make some changes? Should we express some design principle for future revisions of the spec, about not putting into the message body any parameters a proxy might need to read? Should we consider a more extreme position (that would require significant changes to the current spec): Never put request parameters in the message body? Judith A. Slein Xerox Corporation jslein@crt.xerox.com (716)422-5169 800 Phillips Road 105/50C Webster, NY 14580
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