"Anne van Kesteren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:47:50 +0100, Kris Zyp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - it needs to be hints from the application, not control. > > I don't mind if the wording is such that all the API level properties > > are treated as hints/suggestions for the underlying HTTP subsystems, > > that is fine. Letting the core systems have the final say seems > > appropriate. But without these hints a number of important capabilites > > of emerging web technologies are being severely hampered. XHR already > > has a lot of relatively low level capabilities including access to and > > modification of headers (which can be overriden by the underlying > > subsystems). At least hinting at expectations of long-lived responses > > and optimum pipeline orderings does not seem out of line with what XHR > > is. > > Headers are not a transport detail. Together with the entity body and the
> HTTP method they form the request. Yes and no. Some headers are purely transport detail (e.g. Connection, Transfer-Encoding, TE). The problem is that these are mixed in with the majority of others which aren't. -- Stewart Brodie