At 12:06 PM -0600 11/15/99, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>I'm curious, though, why you used single character record IDs, as for
>ExternalParser.cc, for things like content-type, etc., instead of using
>the same sort of headers used by HTTP.  I guess it's not a problem except
>perhaps for the "c" content record, which will require the entire content
>on one line with no tabs, if I read the code correctly.

My initial thought was that it should approximate the ExternalParser 
code. I realized the problem with "c" last night as I sat down to 
code an example handler. Oops.

My other reasoning was that we should make the headers as 
protocol-independent as possible. For example, one obvious 
application is HTTPS, but FTP should be doable as well. It's easy to 
make HTTP headers for HTTPS :-), but a bit more difficult for FTP.

I don't care either way, but I brought it up a few weeks ago and no 
one seemed to care.

-Geoff


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