Re: draft-mutz-http-attributes-01

Andy Mutz (mutz@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Wed, 07 Aug 1996 10:22:08 PDT


Paul Leach writes:
>I really don't understand why x and y size for the display were
>separated. I can't really see caching using Vary based only on x or y.
>So, I'd suggest:
>        UA-pix: <x-size> x <y-size>
>because it's shorter and no significant loss of functionlity.
>
>I also don't understand the rationale behind
>        UA-media-<type>
>introducing many extra header names, instead of
>        UA-media: <type>
>which seems like it works just as well conceptually, and fits perfectly
>into Vary based caching.
>
>
>Bottom line -- I'd like it to be more like it was before, but with the
>shorter names.

The new draft of draft-mutz-http-attributes is now available at:
ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-mutz-http-attributes-01.txt

Most of the syntax changes in the draft are to provide compliance
with the transparent content negotiation method for features described
in: draft-holtman-pre02-19.txt.  It's not possible to supply more than
one numeric argument, or any non-numeric argument to features.  UA-pix
was broken into two numeric arguments, and UA-media was split into 
a set of unique feature tags.  I would like to see non-numeric values
for feature tags allowed.                                          

Andy Mutz.
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