- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 97 14:45:19 MDT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Koen Holtman writes:
I *never* want proxies to take the initiative in retrying an
idempotent operation. It would be OK to dilute the MUST to a SHOULD
for user agents, but not for proxies. This would make the web
unsafe for ordering pizzas.
I've rewritten the subsection to make it clear that it applies
to user-agent clients, not to proxies:
8.2.3 Automatic retrying of requests
If a user agent sees the transport connection close before it
receives a final response to its request, if the request method is
idempotent (see section 9.1.2), the user agent SHOULD retry the
request without user interaction. If the request method is not
idempotent, the user agent SHOULD NOT retry the request without user
confirmation. (Confirmation by user-agent software with semantic
understanding of the application MAY substitute for user
confirmation.)
-Jeff
Received on Friday, 18 July 1997 14:56:18 UTC