[gopher] Re: Views

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 04:04  PM, Robert Hahn wrote:

> If you're open to changing the spec, then perhaps it should be up to
> the client to specify what's 'preferred'.  How can the server know
> what a client wants, really?

It doesn't have to.  The client just gets what it wants.  The server 
simply tells it what the option is and indicates a single preferred 
option (the first listed one).  The client can either heed or ignore 
that preference.