Beyond 1.1
Peter J Churchyard (pjc@trusted.com)
Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:03:29 -0400 (EDT)
I agree with the discussion that the http 1.1 spec is getting a bit large.
I would like to see the Transfer Protocol part of HTTP be split out as
a seperate standard from the HyperText part.
The transfer protocol spec would be about the 'wire' format,
requests, responses, persistance, chunking.
The HyperText part would be about content negociation, cacheing,
http-attributes.
The transfer protocol spec would define the headers that are specific to
it and say that other headers will also be added by the higher levels.
I do beleive in the N layer model of communications protocols.
Pete.
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