Re: Feedback on the ping="" attribute (ISSUE-1)

On 11/7/07, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> Mark Baker wrote:
> > Since we're looking for common ground, as I mentioned before, I agree
> > that a pinged server will probably behave non-idempotently.
>
> OK.  Good.
>
> > But that's orthogonal to the meaning of the message it receives.
>
> How so?  The message is "A link was clicked".  This is fundamentally a
> non-idempotent message: multiple link clicks are not the same as a single link
> click.

It's my turn to ask "How so?".

As I see it, the message is "turn this URI into some data please",
which is safe and idempotent (by definition: all safe messages are
idempotent).

Mark.
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