Re: mustUnderstand, mustIgnore [was: Posted PaceEntryOrder]

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@xxxxxxxx>]

Sigh indeed. We have only one chance to do this. This was one of the 
big advantages that I was looking for Atom to have over RSS...


On Feb 5, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Tim Bray wrote:

> On Feb 5, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
> > What does that mean? SOAP is a "Must Ignore format," but it also has 
> > a way of saying that you have to understand a particular extension; 
> > as I said before, this is one of the big problems with HTTP. 
> > mustUnderstand should be used sparingly, but sometimes it's 
> > necessary.
>
> Unfortunately my PaceMustUnderstandElement was shouted down by a 
> howling mob of WG members with torches and pitchforks.  Sigh. -Tim

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