Re: Any interest in automatic link-updating?
David W. Morris (dwm@shell.portal.com)
Sat, 13 Jul 1996 15:02:33 -0700 (PDT)
On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, James Marshall wrote:
> Is anyone interested in a simple mod to HTTP to allow more efficient link
> updating when a 301 response occurs? I once designed an addition to HTTP
I would be interested ... if the WG wanted to consider the possiblity
but I can anticipate several concerns which might be difficult to
resolve:
a. The referer is often unrelated to the owner or the refered document.
In that role, I would not want automatic update of anything on
my site w/o some very careful controls.
b. I have a shipping product which includes a built in reference to
an unrelated external site. This product will make thousands of
users into micro-web servers w/o any ability to deal with any form
of automatic notification. I only offer this as the penultimate
example of difficulty which needs to be considered (and makes me
think our maintenance release should have a way to deal with
broken imbeded links...)
Dave Morris