[Dev] Re: [Cosmo] Apple iCal & cosmo-demo

Lisa Dusseault lisa at osafoundation.org
Mon Mar 6 16:06:45 PST 2006


On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

> I don't think Chandler should assume that there will be a port 80  
> ('http') server along with the port 443 ('https') server, and that  
> they both refer to the same Cosmo instance.  I'm not sure how  
> Chandler could know this in a general way, without having site- 
> specific logic (in other words, "if host == 'cosmo-demo' then port  
> 443 is equivalent to 80") inside Chandler.  It's perhaps unusual  
> that cosmo-demo is set up this way, and I wouldn't count on it.  I  
> would be interested to hear what other people think.

+1.  The server might be able to tell you which URLs are direct  
mappings of each other, but it's harmful to interoperability for the  
client to make an assumption like this about mappings.

Lisa



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