Re: Accept-Transfer header field (was HTTP/1.1 Issues:
Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:10:58 +0100 (MET)
Larry Masinter:
>
>"accept-" request headers are handled specially by the 'vary'
>header response.
?? In ther last version I saw, Vary did not treat any field as
special.
>Since this doesn't apply end-to-end and might
>be introduced by an intermediate, I don't think that it should
>be called "Accept-" anything. Roy's suggestion of making this
>an option to 'Connection' might be reasonable, but I'm suspicious
>of adding this last-minute feature into a Draft Standard.
I feel that making a clean separation between content and transfer
compression is a cleanup we should have made a long time ago, and on
that grounds I think it is reasonable to add it as a last-minute
feature.
It is not really critical whether it is called Accept- or connection:
something. I like the connection alternative slightly better. And no
gunky parameters about compression quality or dictionaries please --
adding these would take the whole thing way beyond a 1.1 cleanup, and
how are we ever going to claim two independent implementations for
such things if we add them?
>Larry
Koen.