Re: Fwd:HTTP server driven content negotiation

At 03:11 PM 3/8/99 +0100, Johan Hjelm wrote:
>Actually, this problem is exactly the same as when you have a pager or
>other device that does not have bidirectional communication with the server. 

In general, I'll buy that.

>One way to do it is to set up a generic profile for the device class, which
>is activated when the device is activated (e.g. when the device is bought,
>through a telephone call to the provider - the same way as is done with
>pagers now). The WAP Forum Push group has been working on this (using
>CC/PP), but there are some other problems with push media that also need to
>be adressed (e.g. caching) that it is not clear how to solve.

Can I get a pointer to this work?

Thanks,
	Mike

>At 10:53 1999-03-08 +0100, Philipp Hoschka wrote:
>>Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 14:53:09 -0800
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>>When making content-based system profiles, it would be handy to tag
>>broadcast content.
>>
>>As best as I can tell, CC/PP and the IETF conneg work is not suitable since
>>it requires the client to first describe its profile (which cannot
>>generally be done in TV).
>>
>>HTTP 1.1 has the Vary tag and the concept of server driven content
>>negotiation.  However, I found the use of the Vary tag somewhat vague.
>>Anyone have any experience with this tag?  Is there more info somewhere at
>>W3C on this - from the HTTP 1.1 author perhaps?
>>
>>Thanks for any pointers.
>>
>>Regards,
>>	Mike
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