- From: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:37:19 -0600
- To: Mike Kelly <mikekelly321@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Mike Kelly <mikekelly321@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > - In light of the recent proliferation of 'mobile clients' which > operate on relatively slow and unreliable networks where partial > idempotent updates would be ideal; is the loss of idempotent partial > updates considered acceptable? How would partial PUT work? Client cuts the whole entity into pieces, and PUT each one individually? That is not atomic - what happens to a GET request before the whole thing is finished? I don't think PATCH addresses OP's concern, that is, reducing retransmission cost in face of network failure (which should really be TCP's job). Zhong
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