- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:02:02 -0800 (PST)
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: "M. Hedlund" <hedlund@best.com>, montulli@mozilla.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Koen Holtman wrote: > M. Hedlund: > >[Lou Montulli:] > >>In fact, [Dave's proposal] reduces the capibilities such that it is nearly > >>unusable for large scale applications such as online shopping. > > > >I disagree (as a programmer for an online shopping site). I do agree that > >an extremely large online shopping site with many stores or large ordering > >possibilities might hit an upper limit with the state-info proposal if they > >tried to store all ordering info in the State-info: header. This concern, > >however, is not pressing for the vast majority of ordering systems, which > >accumulate a small number of items in each session. > > I agree. Besides, hopefully this "extremely large shopping site" will be sufficiently funded and motivated to build a shopping cart Java applet which will store everything in a client-side database so none of this information needs to get transmitted over the wire more than twice (once at browse-time, once at order-time) and there's no limit to what can go in your shopping cart. Oh, the Java applet API doesn't have persistant object support - oops! Big mistake there. Hopefully the API v2 will fix that... Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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