Initializing HTTP headers from HTML documents

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From: Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Message-id: <9401051700.AA00527@manuel.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Initializing HTTP headers from HTML documents
To: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 17:00:28 GMT
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I would like to propose a scheme that HTTP servers can use to
initialize HTTP headers by reading information held at the start of
HTML/HTML+ documents. This is intended for fields like Expires: which
are best determined by the document author.

The generic META element takes the following attributes:

        NAME    the name of an HTTP header such as Expires
        VALUE   the value to be passed with the associated header


e.g.  <META NAME="Expires" VALUE="Tue, 04 Jan 1994 14:13:25 GMT">

This element is only permitted as part of the document's HEAD
along with TITLE, ISINDEX and LINK.

Any comments?

Dave Raggett