- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:00:01 +0000
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Jeffrey Winter wrote, > Miles Sabin wrote, > > Extension _headers_ are close to universally supported. I could sit > > down right now and write a Java client which added a Meta: request > > header to requests, set up an Apache instance which used mod_rewrite > > to respond appropriately, and expect the pair to be able to > > communicate through arbitrary proxies and firewalls. > > I was speaking specifically of their semantic support. Most servers > wouldn't understand what they meant, that's all I was trying to say. Well, on the assumption that a server not understanding a Meta: request header implies that there's no metadata, and that the absence of a Meta-Location: response header informs the client of that fact, then it looks to me as tho' we have support for GET+Meta by default. Cheers, Miles
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