- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:17:06 -0700
- To: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
>This needs to be clarified and put in the specification unless we >can discard "100 Continue". I am not interested in revisiting two years worth of discussions just because people have forgotten why it exists. That is what the mailing list archive is for. We cannot discard "100 Continue" because the implementations have already been deployed and it is known to be useful in situations where the client doesn't want (for whatever reason) to send the data before it knows that the URL is correct, that it accepts the method being used, and that it doesn't require some additional form of authentication. It is trivial for the server to implement (see Apache 1.2b*) and trivial for a client to implement (just ignore it) -- the only difficult implementation is one that makes use of the reliability feature, and for them the difficulty is worth it. .....Roy
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