User agent vs Server

There has been some discussion as to whether a transcoding server is a User
Agent - or a server technology.

 

I would suggest that it can be either.  I would suggest we categorize them
as follows.

 

-          if the author provides it or it is a choice from their website
(to have material run through a transcoder whether local or remote) then it
would be a server side technology

 

-          if the user selects to use a transcoder (other than one provided
or suggested by the author) then it would be a user agent (since it is an
agent chosen by the user and which the author has no knowledge of in
advance.)

 

 

 


Gregg

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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
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