- From: David W. Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 19:22:48 -0800 (PST)
- To: rg@server.net
- Cc: mogul@pa.dec.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Thu, 28 Dec 1995, Roger Gonzalez wrote: > > >>>>> Jeffrey Mogul writes: > > Jeff> But I still assert that the optimistic approach is "better" > Jeff> (perhaps not "best") if one believes that, most of the time, > Jeff> RTTs do matter and servers will not reject PUT-like methods. > > While I agree with you overall, I don't buy this. The first PUT > in any session will almost -always- be rejected. Here's my reasoning: Well, my sample is a couple versions of Netscape, but I believe your reasoning is based on an untrue premise. I am a regular user of www.quote.com and have been prompted for basic authentiation data and supplied it since my lasst restart of Netscape. The next time I communicate with www.quote.com Netscape provides the authentication data w/o prompting by the server. It has been and is my belief that most PUTs will occur in response to a prompt page from the same server/authentication domain. If the challenge/response occurs before the setup/prompt page is delivered, it is likely that the UA will provide the same response with the PUT and avoid the challenge. Dave Morris
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