On Fri Jul 22 01:11:33 2011, Masataka Ohta wrote:
Dave Cridland wrote:
> It's proven impossible, despite effort, to retrofit SRV onto HTTP;
Where is a proof?
Sorry, I've a habit of using the word "proof" in the English (and
indeed Welsh) sense of "test" or "trial", rather than the
mathematical sense of the statement backed up by logic.
I should simply say that there have been attempts (I recall more than
one draft), but the situation is sufficiently entrenched that these
have gained no traction, in no small part because of the requirement
for something close to a flag day.
1) There are no SRV records.
2) Therefore browsers do not support them.
3) Therefore you'd need to allow for A-lookup as fallback for the
forseeable future.
4) Therefore there's no incentive for browsers to support SRV.
Dave.
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