- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:17:25 -0500
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "HTML WG List" <public-html@w3.org>
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. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
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