On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:49, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > > > Hmm. I'm -not- making the broker solve the odd cases. I'm giving the > > client the ability to do so, without breaking abstraction. > > And I favor having the server-side solve the odd cases, for the plain > reason that it has much better knowledge of what the server-side is > capable of for the gatewayed protocol in question.
It's a bit of a tricky point: ftp->http for instance, the http client knows more than the ftp server side. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt>.
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