- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 18:01:46 +0100 (MET)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter: > >I also believe that there is sufficient negative >reaction to Roy's proposal in the HTTP/1.1 draft to the '5 second >delay' as to indicate that there is not 'rough consensus' on that >particular design element. > >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? No. >- Should PUT go into HTTP/1.1 as originally specified, Yes, the two-phase send scheme with 5 second timeout should be taken out. Not only for PUT, but also for other methods like POST. > but with a warning as to its unreliability? The warning should not be about unreliability, but about _limitations_ in the PUT semantics that make the implementation of certain types of reliable services by using only one PUT impossible. The proposed two-phase PUT does not offer a clear enough improvement over the limitations of the current one-phase PUT scheme. Without such a clear improvement, we cannot to burden software authors with the requirement to provide implementations of the new scheme. >- Should PUT be removed from HTTP/1.1? I don't care much either way. If it is removed, then the reason should not be that it is unreliable, but that is is not currently used in any standard way. Koen.
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