[8084] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Dynamic HTML documents with client pull
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Fri Apr 28 15:59:59 1995
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 15:56:26 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: brian@organic.com
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Joerg Rhiemeier wrote:
> I am pretty sure that this is Netsc[r]ape-spectific. I haven't found it
> in the IETF HTTP drafts, and I have to agree with Ulf Kronman that such a
> behaviour is evil, rude and nasty.
I'd prefer to use the term "hack" myself, though Netscape likes to call
them "cool tricks".
> This means that Netscrape does not only add shitty extensions to their
> browser, but also to their *server* which is much, much worse!
No. You don't have to use a Netscape server for this - using the META
tag is all that's needed. For non-HTML items, many servers allow you to
add arbitrary HTTP headers to particular objects (WN, Apache, CERN?) and
you could always use a CGI script to dish them out with custom headers
too.
Brian
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