Re: proposed HTTP changes for charset

Nickolay Saukh (nms@nns.ru)
Sat, 06 Jul 1996 00:42:17 +0400


> 	We can all see that mandating a charset might be a good design
> choice; as Steff pointed out in Montreal, encoding a value in a null
> element has some serious design flaws.  We can all also see that
> adding charsets would improve the interoperation of compliant clients
> and servers.  We have to weigh that against the interoperability
> between 1.1 and 1.0, especially in situations where there are caches
> between the end-user client and the origin server.

I am a little bit confused. Is there would not be something like this
on server side?

	if(strcmp(protocol, "HTTP/1.1")) {
		/* Full throttle */
	} else {
		/* Restricted mode */
	}