Re: Why is From: limited?
Roman Czyborra (czyborra@cs.tu-berlin.de)
Sat, 01 Apr 1995 10:23:17 +0200
Phill Hallam-Baker writes:
> Unless a mailto feature was likely to be reliable it should not be
> implemented. By reliable I mean that the mails should be read.
I agree.
> It is a simple enough matter to add a `webmaster' line to the bottom
> of a document with a Perl script.
It is not that simple for me to add such lines to multimedia
documents, let alone to documents that I have no write permission on.
I don't want to go around amending other people's pages, I want my
daemon to automatically insert a header.
> A from line would not be recognised by every browser so most sites
> would have to also add a webmaster line.
True. But sending the From wouldn't hurt, either. Chimera already
lets me see the entire response header. Give it some time and
browsers will pick it up. They'll interface even more to the
traditional tools to handle mail and news documents so you can easily
move around your documents. HTTP has been moving in the direction of
RFC822/MIME for quite a while.
> This would then generate confusion since the two would have to
> match.
Not necessarily. An authorship defined in the contents should be
considered the first address to complain to. Only if the real author
lacks the permissions to change the mirrored copy of his document, the