Re: Auto-Download tags/function?
"Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
Errors-To: listmaster@www0.cern.ch
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 18:21:13 +0200
Errors-To: listmaster@www0.cern.ch
Message-id: <9405191615.AA10806@ulua.hal.com>
Errors-To: listmaster@www0.cern.ch
Reply-To: connolly@hal.com
Originator: www-talk@info.cern.ch
Sender: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
Precedence: bulk
From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: Auto-Download tags/function?
X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Mime-Version: 1.0
Mime-Version: 1.0
In message <9405191602.AA00493@hal.com>, Martijn Koster writes:
>>Or you can write
>> HREF="http://host/path;content-type=applicaiton/postscript"
>>and the client should tell the server that it will only Accept: the
>>postscript version of the document.
>
>Maybe I lost track of the original objective, but why would you want
>to do that with a HTTP URL? Tony suggested doing this as a fix for
>protocols that cannot type the data, but HTTP can, and can even
>negotiate it -- why would you want to switch that off?
I believe that a reference should be able to express:
"See _the_postscript_version_ of document xxxx"
I think this is just a desirable feature that we don't have.
I beleive it must not be a private agreement between client and server,
so that, for instance, if a proxy server has the postscript version
cached, it can serve it up, even though there is a possibility that
the document exists in other formats on the original server.
Dan