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Re: [art] Revising BCP56: On the use of HTTP as a Substrate

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 25 July 2017 04:17 UTC

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:16:56 +1000
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Subject: Re: [art] Revising BCP56: On the use of HTTP as a Substrate
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> On 19 Jul 2017, at 2:53 pm, Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I generally like this, but have one suggested adjustment
> 
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> w
>  
>> For these reasons, it is preferable to use the message payload to indicate the application in use, rather than the URL scheme.
>> 
>> See {{?RFC7595}} for more information about minting new URL schemes.
> 
> I think you cover what the issues are with using URI schemes, but the preference to use message payload appears pretty suddenly.  There are trade-offs there too and some of the usual methods (dispatching mime type) have pretty big gotchas.  I'd suggest you either elide this text or expand it.

Yes; I think saying "preferable" here is too strong; it should just refer to the (soon to be exist) section on defining payloads.


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