[5392] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Client Compliance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Torkington)
Sun Aug 28 02:09:51 1994
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 08:03:11 +0200
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From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
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cwilson@spry.com writes:
> I, too, think that sending this info out with the HTTP request is
> kind of overkill, and adds to an already long request header.
This has probably been mentioned before, but Julian Anderson (who is
working on a form of distributed caching for the Web) pointed out that
Mosaic for X sends lines and lines of Accept: headers, followed by
Accept: */* (as it gives the option to save unknown documents into a
file).
Here is one obvious way to reduce the request header length.
Nat
