Re: Format Negociation in Practice

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen ([email protected])
Wed, 2 Nov 94 14:09:37 +0100

> This is one of the reasons for a clean versioning scheme, e.g.
>
> Accept: text/html; version=3.0

Two numbers would be an advantage instead of one - in this way you can
specify a max and a min version supported. With the evolution of the
Web, it might be very difficult to preserve backwards compatibility
forever.

> (Less talk and more work :)

Short enough? ;-)

-- cheers --

Henrik Frystyk
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