- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 22:42:45 PST
- To: Albert Lunde <Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu>
- CC: www-international@w3.org
Albert Lunde wrote: > It seems to me that If one was doing content-negotiation on language one > would want language to appear in the HTTP headers. If we didn't want in in > the headers, why did we define a header for it? Content negotiation (except transparent content negotiation) does not require that the content be labelled, only that the recipient indicate the recipient's preferences. The "content-language" header was invented for text/plain. For plain text, there is no embedded way to indicate the language, so a header is appropriate. > This was discussed in the past on IETF lists (html-wg and/or http-wg). It was > suggested that there were various applications for a format for > meta-information within a file system as well as "over-the-wire". This may > not just be an issue for HTML. I thought one of the most pointed cases for > this could be made for storing data on a CD-ROM. You might consider an ".asis" file to be "message/http" -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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