- From: Michel Drescher <Michel.Drescher@web.de>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:15:22 +0000
- To: Scott Lawrence <scott@skrb.org>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Scott Lawrence wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:26 +0000, Michel Drescher wrote: > >>Dear working group, >> >>I am exploring the capabilities of the HTTP protocol for implementing >>parallel data distribution using established protocols. > > > As you correctly illustrated, HTTP can (and is) used to 'pull' data in > parallel requests. > > Trying to overload PUT in the way you describe is more or less sure to > fail as soon as you encounter a server that doesn't understand it. That > being the case, you are better off defining a body type for what you > want to do and using POST. It is a controlled environment - we provide both clients and server, so we can make the server understand these requests. All I (more or less) wanted to know is that if my interpretation of the RFC is valid (so we would be fully compliant) or not. Thanks for the answer. Cheers, Michel
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