- From: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:13:46 -0700
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
In the process of changing the SHOULD to a MAY, and the cleanup of the first sentence, I realized that most of the section needs rewrite to properly cover pipelining of a sequence of requests; as written, it only talked about individual requests. Here's my rewrite for sanity's sake. Let me know if anyone sees a problem. - Jim Old: 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.) New: 8.2.3 Automatic Retrying of Requests If a user agent sees the transport connection close before it receives all of the final response to its request or sequence of requests, if the requests or sequence are idempotent (see section 9.1.2), the user agent MAY retry the request or sequence without user interaction. If the request method or sequence 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.) -- Jim Gettys Digital Industry Standards and Consortia Compaq Computer Corporation Visting Scientist, World Wide Web Consortium, M.I.T. http://www.w3.org/People/Gettys/ jg@w3.org, jg@pa.dec.com
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