Re: Use of 'link' header in HTTP

Larry Masinter wrote:
> 
> > I guess I should have finished this ID after all:
> > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/9707-link-header.html
> 
> I found the writeup of this at:
> 
> http://hplbwww.hpl.hp.com/people/ange/archives/archives-97/http-wg-archive/1603.html
> 
> Jim Gettys wrote (about removing the section containing the Link header):
> ==============
> 
> The grounds for removing this section include:
>         1) there are no known implementations
>         2) the WEBDAV group is working in this area, and documenting
> different, and incomplete functions, is a bad idea.

Larry, do you know off-hand how WEBDAV expresses this idiom?

	Link: <mailto:timbl@w3.org>; rev="Made"; title="Tim Berners-Lee"


>         3) there are known problems with some of the proposals: e.g. Link
> sytax does not quite seem to be what the HTML group needs for
> enabling server setting of sytle sheets; its grammar is suspect.  I've
> suggested to Dan Connolly that Link progress as a separate (very short)
> Internet Draft to proposed standard with whatever they need, and hopefully
> quickly.        4) there has been no known discussion of these features on the
> mailing list, and given we don't know of any implementations, going to
> draft standard with these in the document is a bad idea.

-- 
Dan Connolly
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Tuesday, 9 February 1999 12:28:30 UTC