Re: Why is From: limited?
John Franks (john@math.nwu.edu)
Thu, 23 Mar 1995 09:22:51 -0600 (CST)
According to Roman Czyborra:
>
> 1. Why is From: only a request header? It would be nice to provide
> the address of the file owner so you know where to send comments
> if the author forgot to add a <LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:...">
>
Would this be different from the current header
Link: <mailto:e-mail_address>; REL="made"
Many people find the Link header cryptic, perhaps because of its
generality, but I think it supplies the information you want. I
don't know if this is widely used, but it is used by the WN server
(by default for all files -- even non-HTML files).
John Franks