While I agree that difficulty of implementation should not be held up as
the sole reason for not including a feature, we should also make sure
that we don't make the base level feature set of core WWW technology so
complex that a reasonable server or client could only be written by large
software companies or institutions, as that would stifle creativity and
experimentation. Though I suppose that's the whole idea behind a public
reference library implementation like libwww...
Brian
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