Mailing List Archive: for the wish list...

for the wish list...

Aug 10, 1995, 11:18 AM

Post #1 of 8 (496 views)

Something for the wishlist..

A config option to set HTTP headers for Apache to send in addition
to others such as Server, Date,...

e.g. I might want to send

Link: <mailto: www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov>; rel="Publisher"
X-Organization: Los Alamos e-Print Archives
X-Physical-Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
X-mirrored-at: http://babbage.sissa.it/ (Italy)
X-current-temperature: 86F
X-Andressen-worth: $58m

etc, okay silly eample.

so that people who use HEAD to nose around other people's sites get
some useful information.

Roy doesn't have a problem with this idea, or at least not with the
"Link:" type of response.

rob

Re: for the wish list... [ In reply to ]

fielding at beach

Aug 10, 1995, 12:02 PM

Post #2 of 8 (496 views)

>e.g. I might want to send
>
>Link: <mailto: www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov>; rel="Publisher"
>X-Organization: Los Alamos e-Print Archives
>X-Physical-Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
>X-mirrored-at: http://babbage.sissa.it/ (Italy)
>X-current-temperature: 86F
>X-Andressen-worth: $58m
>
>etc, okay silly eample.

uh, yeah.

>so that people who use HEAD to nose around other people's sites get
>some useful information.
>
>Roy doesn't have a problem with this idea, or at least not with the
>"Link:" type of response.

Yeah, the latter. The other crud^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H example
is better as represented as

Link: </siteinfo.html>; rel="Publisher";
title="Los Alamos e-Print Archives, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA"
URI: <http://ooo.lanl.gov/rocket_science.html>,<http://babbage.sissa.it/>

In theory, any header is okay, but we might as well use the
established forms for relationships and mirrors.

.....Roy

Re: for the wish list... [ In reply to ]

Aug 10, 1995, 1:13 PM

Post #3 of 8 (492 views)

Re: for the wish list... [ In reply to ]

brian at organic

Aug 10, 1995, 2:04 PM

Post #4 of 8 (496 views)

What's wrong with .asis?

Oh, you mean headers with every response that are constants in the
server? I don't see a use for it yet, but....

One could of course abuse the #define for SERVER_VERSION in httpd.h.

Brian

On Thu, 10 Aug 1995, Rob Hartill wrote:
> Something for the wishlist..
>
> A config option to set HTTP headers for Apache to send in addition
> to others such as Server, Date,...
>
> e.g. I might want to send
>
> Link: <mailto: www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov>; rel="Publisher"
> X-Organization: Los Alamos e-Print Archives
> X-Physical-Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
> X-mirrored-at: http://babbage.sissa.it/ (Italy)
> X-current-temperature: 86F
> X-Andressen-worth: $58m
>
> etc, okay silly eample.
>
> so that people who use HEAD to nose around other people's sites get
> some useful information.
>
> Roy doesn't have a problem with this idea, or at least not with the
> "Link:" type of response.
>
> rob
>

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Re: for the wish list... [ In reply to ]

brian at organic

Aug 10, 1995, 2:07 PM

Post #5 of 8 (494 views)

On Thu, 10 Aug 1995, James Pitkow wrote:
> > A config option to set HTTP headers for Apache to send in addition
> > to others such as Server, Date,...
>
> This gets to the heart of the meta-information issue. The cool
> thing is that there are a whole bunch of core fields like author, title,
> etc. as well as other (potentially more interesting) areas like usage,
> replication, etc. This suggests that different levels of meta-information
> could be requested for differnt client-side views/tasks. If Apache
> does decide to start dumping extra headers (which could be managed
> with mSQL or as a seperate file), I suggest starting with the
> OCLC/NCSA Dublin Dozen [1] &/or the URC specification.

I think he was thinking of server-wide headers rather than document-specific,
but it should be noted that one can add document-specific headers now using
the .asis type. I would recommend keeping this to an absolute minimum, and
if there's actual metainformation available the client should find it out
using the URL2URC method on the server as a separate access. Just
thinking out loud.

Brian

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Re: for the wish list... [ In reply to ]

Aug 10, 1995, 3:07 PM

Post #6 of 8 (490 views)

> Oh, you mean headers with every response that are constants in the
> server? I don't see a use for it yet, but....

I often wish I could find a contact address in the HTTP headers, or
the name of the company/origanization.

> One could of course abuse the #define for SERVER_VERSION in httpd.h.

I don't think that'd catch on :-)

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Aug 10, 1995, 3:32 PM

Post #7 of 8 (492 views)

> I often wish I could find a contact address in the HTTP headers, or
> the name of the company/origanization.

I also wish I could type and spell.

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Aug 10, 1995, 5:36 PM

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