> A good point. But even if the HTTP protocol allows the use of an > optimistic two-phase scheme (as I am suggesting), this does not mean > that it would be required (since the optimistic scheme includes the > pessimistic scheme as a backstop). In other words, a user that was > being charged by the packet could choose to employ the pessimistic > scheme, on its own initiative. If this would still require the 100 Continue response be sent upon receipt of the initial headers (which is what the application desiring a pessimistic scheme would be looking for anyway), it sounds good to me. It is okay if the pessimistic scheme only works "well" for HTTP/1.1 servers. ...Roy T. Fielding Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu) University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056 http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/Received on Thursday, 28 December 1995 14:56:26 UTC
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