Re: VRML Geolocation request

Brian Behlendorf ([email protected])
Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:57:13 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, Chris Hand wrote:
> > all you folks building VRML pages. What i need is:
> > 1) the URL for your site
> > 2) The approximate latitude and longitude of the physical
> > location of your site
>
> It would be a trivial extension to the protocol to do this automatically
> (something I often wished was included in HTTP)... the server gives out
> its long/lat on request.
>
> Then you can make these maps automatically.

There's an HTTP extensions mechanism proposal at
<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/draft-kristol-http-extensions-00.txt>
This is seen as preferable to adding "X-" headers when one wishes to
extend the capabilities of HTTP - it also gives the browser and server
the power to negotiate based on capabilities. (i.e. "Can you do this?"
"No, I can't" "Then I won't waste time and bandwidth sending you this
info.")

But I suppose for the time being there's nothing wrong with encoding it
as X-Geolocation: 118 24 34 21 34 43 or something, while we're
experimenting. I think at this point one should look at Mark Pesce's CP
proposal, at <URL:http://hyperreal.com/~mpesce/www.html>.

Brian

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