On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Ben Niven-Jenkins
<[email protected]>wrote:
>
> On 6 Nov 2012, at 19:20, Vijay K. Gurbani wrote:
>
> > On 11/06/2012 01:11 PM, Junchang(Jason) Wang wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> Or adding a single sentence about potential issues of clients which
> >> aren't rfc2616 compliant in Section 6.3 would benefit readers a lot.
> >
> > Jason: The problem with is why stop at the specific example of Content-
> > Encoding? A client that isn't compliant will rfc2616 can potentially
> > do anything it wants and fail in a spectacular way, or worse, cause the
> > ALTO server to fail in a spectacular way.
> >
> > I think Section 6.3 takes a reasonable stand that ALTO clients and
> > servers MUST be compliant with rfc2616. Hedging our bets and saying
> > that clients MAY be partially compatible opens up a larger can of
> > worms, unfortunately.
>
> +1 the ALTO protocol spec is clear - to implement ALTO you need to be
> RFC2616 compliant. If someone wants to implement an ALTO client that isn't
> RFC2616 compliant then they are on their own and interoperability isn't
> guaranteed.
>
>
Thanks for the opinions, VIjay, Ben. We then proceed with the current
writing, without singling out some potential issues.
Vijay: if you have some write up on (experiences from) interop, chunked
coding might be listed as a potential source issue.
Thanks!
Richard
> Ben
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - vijay
> > --
> > Vijay K. Gurbani, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
> > 1960 Lucent Lane, Rm. 9C-533, Naperville, Illinois 60563 (USA)
> > Email: vkg@{bell-labs.com,acm.org} / [email protected]
> > Web: http://ect.bell-labs.com/who/vkg/
> >
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