Re: Interest in standard HTTP headers for specifying client display attributes?
Scott Lawrence (lawrence@agranat.com)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:00:09 -0400
>>>>> "MDW" == Mark D Wood <mdw@itc.kodak.com> writes:
MDW> Obviously, there are a wide range of client aspects that one
MDW> might want to know about, and it probably doesn't make sense to
MDW> add HTTP headers for all of them. However, since images are
MDW> pretty basic, adopting a standard here would be useful.
A look at the archives for this list will uncover considerable
discussion of various mechanisms for passing all sorts of
information about user & client preferences and capabilities, and
little consensus on how or even whether this should be done.
Various of these efforts will apparently proceed as efforts separate
from getting the HTTP/1.1 spec stable. Without disagreeing with the
idea that this would be usefull, I for one would really prefer that
it not be considered as a part of the 1.1 spec.
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Scott Lawrence EmWeb Embedded Server <lawrence@agranat.com>
Agranat Systems, Inc. Engineering http://www.agranat.com/