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