Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Mon, 11 June 2007 03:34 UTC

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>> Digest has a bad reputation particularly among Web App developers for
>> a number of reasons, some inherent to the design and specification,
>> some stemming from implementation and deployment choices.
>>     
>
> Nearly all is implementation.
>   
ah, but what's the reason for all of those implementation-imposed
constraints?

Keith