{"draft":"draft-ietf-http-rvsa-v10-03","doc_id":"RFC2296","title":"HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA\/1.0 ","authors":["K. Holtman","A. Mutz"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"13","pub_status":"EXPERIMENTAL","status":"HISTORIC","source":"HyperText Transfer Protocol","abstract":"HTTP allows web site authors to put multiple versions of the same\r\ninformation under a single URL.  Transparent content negotiation is a\r\nmechanism for automatically selecting the best version when the URL\r\nis accessed.  A remote variant selection algorithm can be used to\r\nspeed up the transparent negotiation process. This document defines\r\nthe remote variant selection algorithm with the version number 1.0.","pub_date":"February 1998","keywords":["HTTP-RVSA","Hyper","Text","Transfer","protocol","URL","Uniform","Resource","Locators"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC2296","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc2296"}