   From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 29
Mar 2011 10:12:34 +0000 Message-ID:
<30670.1301393554@critter.freebsd.dk> In message
<BB32FA8E-855D-4155-9715-D7597C5A8438@gbiv.com>, "Roy T.
Fielding" w  >client to make an additional GET request.  And
standardizing a header to kindly request but not demand this,
would help how ?  Is the hope that all browsers will send this
by default ?  Or is this intended only for obscure corner cases,
were an private X-FOO header or URI variable would be a better
and more narrowly tailored solution anyway ?  I'm sorry if this
sounds cranky, but I don't believe that "as many options as
possible" is the right mental frame for writing standards,
Occams razor is much better:  If this is already possible
through existing means, why do we need it as a separate standard
?   Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer
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