- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:05:44 -0800
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
The upside is that it is pretty reasonable as far as saving roundtrips. The downside is that people would have to configure their servers to intercept OPTIONS * and do content negotiation on it. This should be easy-ish to do in Apache; not sure about IIS. In any case it should be relatively easy to come up with a module that took a special directory of site metadata files and made them available as appropriate. I think it would have a decent chance of catching on if configuration was fairly easy, and a few specs (like P3P and the Web Service discovery thingy that was recently floated) adopted it. Fighting against robots.txt will be hard... On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:48:32PM -0600, Dan Connolly wrote: > On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 20:43, Mark Nottingham wrote: > [...] > > The obvious solution would be to use OPTIONS * along with an > > appropriate accept header (or maybe something like AcceptNS?). > > er... not too obvious; I hadn't considered it before. > > It's a nifty idea. > > > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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