Re: client-store interface

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:49, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > Hmm. I'm -not- making the broker solve the odd cases. I'm giving the
> > client the ability to do so, without breaking abstraction.
>
> And I favor having the server-side solve the odd cases, for the plain
> reason that it has much better knowledge of what the server-side is
> capable of for the gatewayed protocol in question.

It's a bit of a tricky point:
ftp->http for instance, the http client knows more than the ftp server
side.

Rob

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