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Comment LC-2053
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Commenter: casays <casays@yahoo.com>

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Resolution status:

5) Section 4.1.5.

Statement to be added:

"In so far as the transformation carried out by the proxies is
to make content intended for a certain class A of devices
available to devices of another class B, then requests MUST NOT
be modified whenever a client of a certain class is accessing
content intended for its class.

If the class of request (either mobile-optimized or full-Web) is
not unambiguously determined from the URI pattern, the proxy
MUST take into account the original user-agent to avoid
unnecessary transformations."

Rationale: It is obviously pointless to transform full-Web
content accessed by full-Web capable devices (or vice-versa,
transforming mobile-optimized content for devices with mobile
browsers). Two cases illustrate the situation.
a) When full-Web devices such as advanced HTC PDAs, iPhones
or tablets access the Web, there is no guarantee that an
established server will include a no-transform directive; in
fact, it might explicitly leave it out to allow transformation
to cater for non-full-Web capable devices. Further, the
proposed heuristics will not work: the MIME types of returned
content will indicate full-Web content (e.g. text/html), as
well as the DOCTYPE (e.g. -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN).
b) When i-Mode terminal accessing i-Mode applications, there is
no guarantee that the corresponding servers return a no-transform
directive (since it is irrelevant for i-Mode applications).
Heuristics may not work either, since content is largely returned
as text/html, and without any DOCTYPE declaration.
(space separated ids)
(Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)


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