RE: The deep difference between request/response and fire-and-forget

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Salz [mailto:rsalz@datapower.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:08 PM
> To: David Orchard
> Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
> Subject: RE: The deep difference between request/response and
fire-and-
> forget
> 
> > I would say that if closing the connection (wow, I originally typed
that
> > as if close thing connection..) without waiting for a response is
> > invalid HTTP, THEN that means that HTTP can't do Fire and Forget AND
> > that an application that would be built on Fire and Forget couldn't
be
> > deployed on HTTP.
> 
> I'm not so sure.  Why can't you do HTTP/FaF by saying that the HTTP
server
> response is consumed (per the HTTP protocol spec) but ignored?

I would think that consuming the response is the opposite of "forget".
Consuming the response is effectively not fire and forget.  Isn't that
the key difference between req/resp and f-a-f?

Dave