RE: safe PUT

Larry Masinter writes in <95Dec29.134224pst.2733@golden.parc.xerox.com>:
>We've had a long discussion with various counter-proposals floated,
>but not much convergence. I'll ask all of you to decide between one of
>the following three alternatives (I can think of no others):
>
>- Are you interested in drafting a counter-proposal?
>- Should PUT go into HTTP/1.1 as originally specified, but
>  with a warning as to its unreliability?
>- Should PUT be removed from HTTP/1.1?

IMHO, PUT should go into HTTP/1.1 but with a warning on unreliability.  My 
wild hunch is that to start, out of all PUT-using servers, there will be few 
that will run into the PUT reliability problems.  This is just an 
extrapolation from:
1) My own experiences as an Intranet Webmaster (security considerations are 
less when you deal with fellow employees); and
2) Trade press reports saying that # of Intranet Webs >> # of Internet Webs.
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Mark Leighton Fisher                   Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com                   Indianapolis, IN

Received on Thursday, 4 January 1996 07:45:22 UTC