- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:01:28 +0000
- To: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
- cc: "Adrien W. de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <34f9f0e4f85753187ecbb46f42609f0d.squirrel@arekh.dyndns.org>, "Nicol as Mailhot" writes: > >Le Dim 8 avril 2012 14:50, Adrien W. de Croy a écrit : > >>>>3. a way to signal the web client a request is being processed (there is no >>>>way a multi-GB iso is going to pass through the anti-malware system >>>>instantaneously, and users will press retry if the download bar does not >>>> move >>>>after a few seconds) > >>>That sounds like serious scope-creep to me. > >Unfortunately a single user that pressed refresh half a dozen times because >he's not seeing progress on its multi-GB file can consume as much in a few >minutes as a normal user would over weeks. Ohh, I don't dispute that. I just don't see the solution being adding a userinterface on top of HTTP... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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