RE: Is PUT atomic?

Hum.. well I found the phrase "HTTP/1.1 does not define how a PUT method
affects the state of an origin server."

So, if this issue is address in the 1.1 spec, I do not know where.

		Yaron

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim Davis [SMTP:jdavis@parc.xerox.com]
> Sent:	Monday, October 27, 1997 2:17 PM
> To:	w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Subject:	Is PUT atomic?
> 
> This is probably better asked to a different group than this one, but I
> hope someone knows the answer anyway: 
> 
> Does HTTP say anything at all, one way or the other, about whether a PUT
> is
> atomic?  That is to ask, suppose two parties, A and B, each do a PUT on
> the
> same resource.  Does HTTP say whether afterwards, if party C does a GET,
> the result will either be what A sent, or B, but not some horrible
> conflation of both?
>