Re: 'PUT' transaction reconsidered (was Re: two-phase send concerns )

From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 00:51:03 -0500 Message-Id: <9512280551.AA19724@sulphur.osf.org> To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, mogul@pa.dec.com · This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Wednesday, 24 September 2003 06:31:38 EDT

>Would anyone like to argue that more than 25% of PUTs (and similar
>HTTP methods) are going to be rejected?  To me, this seems unlikely
>(most users will learn not to ask for things that the servers don't
>allow), but I don't have enough experience to know.

Only two examples come to my mind, both of which I put in the
not impossible area:
    Using HTTP for replication consistency
    Recasting Usenet (and NNTP) into an HTTP modus operandi

	/r$