Re: Version identifier in URL
Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@w3.org)
Thu, 30 May 1996 08:32:42 -0400
In message <9605291632.AA0573@ccmnotes1.cwi.com>, Marty Cagan/Continuus Softwar
e Corporation writes:
>
>If Web tools were made "configuration smart" in addition to "version
>smart", then rather than pass around version identifiers, they might
>instead pass around release or configuration identifiers, which the
>server might then resolve to a particular version of a given URL.
>(Note that I'm not just referring to version tags here, but rather some
>indicator of the release/configuration that implies not just the
>specific version of each URL, but also the actual set and structure
>of the URLs. For example, configuration "release 3.0" might have
>one set and structure of URLs, but "release 4.0" might have a
>completely different set and structure.)
The notion of volume identifiers has been kicked around in the
HTTP caching subgroup. It might relate.
Jeffrey Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
Tue, 02 Jan 96 15:39:05 PST
http://weeble.lut.ac.uk/lists/http-caching/0045.html
Dan