Re: Seeking clarification about the use of the HTTP binding

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 01:42:04PM -0500, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Finally, I think there's a case to be made that this is a significant 
> misuse of HTTP itself, which has a pretty strong notion of 
> request/response on a POST (you couldn't send the header on a GET.)

I don't think it's quite that strong, Noah.  I believe that the 202
"Accepted" response provides the desired "out" here, by being
"intentionally non-committal".  I've used it myself, on occasion, for
exactly the scenario described.

Mark.
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