- From: <kugler@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:17:03 -0600
- To: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Great! Is the current MIME type still "multipart/x-mixed-replace" (i.e., is it
still considered experimental?)? Is multipart/replace widely implemented?
-Carl
"Scott Lawrence" <lawrence@agranat.com> on 06/17/99 08:21:45 AM
To: Carl Kugler/Boulder/IBM@IBMUS, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
cc:
Subject: RE: Asynchronous updates/notifications
> From: kugler@us.ibm.com
> For some long-running operations, it would be nice if a server
> could send asynchronous notifications to a client, so the client
> doesn't have to poll (or refresh periodically) to get progress
> updates. I'm wondering if something similar to the 100-Continue
> mechanism could be used for this.
You can do this now by sending a single response with a multipart/replace
body. All it costs is keeping a connection open. The more general need is
for notifications that do not require an open connection, but that is a
different story.
Received on Thursday, 17 June 1999 09:22:45 UTC