On Mar 24, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
Well, except for, we observe empirically that this is confusing developers in the interop testing and leading to errors and wasted time, so that's a good argument for making the spec explicit even if it is redundant. -Tim
As long as it merely makes the existing self-descriptive feature explicit for servers, that is fine. What I meant is that the mechanism for indicating what the response contains is already in HTTP and is sufficient to remove any ambiguity, so use it rather than add new APP-specific expectations. ....Roy
