Message-Id: <9403181629.AA15289@expresso.bunyip.com>
From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 11:29:34 -0500
In-Reply-To: Larry Masinter's message as of Mar 17, 19:21
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, moore@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Unresolved URL issues
Hi all,
[ Larry wrote: ]
. . .
> Do is your argument against the `multiple CWD' interpretation one of
> aesthetics or efficiency? I think 'smart clients' could probably
> recognize a FTP greeting from their favorite style of FTP server, if
> need be.
I do believe "aesthetics" is a pretty important design
consideration. Without voting one way or the other in this
particular debate, I think as a general principle we
should avoid choices which place too much dependence upon
"smart clients" as I can't help but see them as examples of
special casing, which seems to imply our architecture is
not as clean as it could be.
- peterd
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