- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:07:08 -0800
- To: "'Jim Davis'" <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, "Jim Gettys (E-mail)" <jg@w3.org>, "Roy T. Fielding (E-mail)" <fielding@ics.uci.edu>, "Larry Masinter (E-mail)" <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
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? >
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