Re: Variant (was Rules for combining headers in a caching proxy...)
Balint Nagy Endre (bne@carenet.hu)
Thu, 30 May 1996 05:11:11 +0200 (MET DST)
Rober S. Tau:
> My fairly quick read of the document thus far has left me with a few
> more minor quibbles. The definition of "variant" in section 1.3 is a
> bit confusing --- the current text is:
>
> Each representation of that resource that corresponds to a different
> sequence of entities that could be returned for a requested resource
> is termed a variant.
A was lost in that much thats, too.
> This had me scratching my head for a bit (starting with "which
> resource?") --- perhaps something like:
>
> If multiple representations could be returned for a single requested
> resource, each such representation is termed a variant of that resource.
>
> is simpler. (Then again, perhaps it seems simpler to me because that's
> the one which I wrote).
And clear at first look even for me.
Andrew. (Endre Balint Nagy) <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>