Return-Path: owner-new-httpd Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id MAA24277; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:12:18 -0700 Received: from eat.organic.com by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id MAA24271; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:12:16 -0700 Received: (from brian@localhost) by eat.organic.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA09092; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:13:16 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:13:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Behlendorf To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: Negotiation and suffixes... In-Reply-To: <9508091455.AA29729@volterra> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Wed, 9 Aug 1995, Robert S. Thau wrote: > Note on a possible way out --- Cliff, if you're willing to denote different > styles of suffix by different delimiters (e.g. "index.html-fr"), how about > applying the same style to your own case --- naming the files index-old.html, > etc.? Either way, there are compatibility and conformance issues. I personally strongly prefer the concept of "anything after a '.' is a meta-information flag", but that'll be something we'll have to enforce. A script that knew of all possible meta-information flags and searched a file tree for documents with bogus things like ".old" would be useful to write I suppose.... Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/