Re: #288: Considering messages in isolation

On 22/06/2011, at 7:07 PM, Adrien de Croy wrote:

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> On 22/06/2011 1:43 p.m., Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Proposal for<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/288>:
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>> Add to new message orientation section (see #283) or just to 2.2 Client/Server? messaging:
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>> Recipients MUST consider every message in a connection in isolation; because HTTP is a stateless protocol, it cannot be assumed that two requests on the same connection are from the same client or share any other common attributes.
> over TCP/IP this isn't true, since by definition being on the same connection means having the same peer, and therefore sharing the same client IP:port, and (in practice) credentials.
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> Or do you mean by common attributes only aspects encapsulated in an HTTP request message itself (e.g. things learned from headers etc)?

Yes, I was speaking of the HTTP-specific aspects of things.

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