- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:59:37 -0700
- To: "'Mark Nottingham'" <mnot@mnot.net>, <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Personally, I think "pull" or "push" are better applied to applications than to protocols. Web browsing is mainly 'pull', and sending email is mainly 'push'. Both HTTP and SMTP have 'pull' and 'push' operations. The verbs apply to the relationship of the main data flow to the initiator. When sending email, the initiator sends the data (usually), and when browsing the web, the data is (mainly) sent to the initiator. These are informal terms which are useful to describe the gross characteristics of an application but don't have useful formal definitions. W3C Workshop on Push Technology (1997) http://www.w3.org/Architecture/9709_Workshop/ Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
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