Re: SPEC: DNS conventions & "naming" of VRML sites

Chris Marrin ([email protected])
Wed, 14 Jun 1995 13:10:09 -0700

On Jun 14, 11:28am, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> Subject: Re: SPEC: DNS conventions & "naming" of VRML sites
>
> Actually, it's very easy to return a VRML document to a VRML browser and
an
> HTML document to an HTML browser for the *same* URL (i.e.,
> http://www.vrml.org/), given that browser authors are doing the right
thing
> with Accept: headers. (HINT HINT) I also think "WWW" includes VRML and
all
> other media types, so I don't agree that we need a separate convention
for
> naming HTTP hosts that hold VRML pages.

Not being guilt ridden I won't assume that HINT referred to any browser in
particular :-)...

A while back I tried using "Accept: x-world/x-vrml" and had the http
server I was connecting to send me html anyway! I talked to one of our
experts and he laughed, saying "yeah, nobody supports that".

Does anyone have any authoritative information (beyond what's available at
the CERN site) on the operation of Accept:, and possibly what servers
handle it?

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