- From: cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 02:14:37 -0400
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 03/07/2013 6:19 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 3 July 2013 15:08, cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
>> If a tree falls in a forest but no one is around to see it, does it make
>> a sound? :)
> Exactly my point. Except that I think we are drawing dramatically
> different conclusions from a pragmatic perspective.
>
> I'm not sure that any of your questions are especially hard to answer,
> though I don't see how pipelining plays into this at all.
I was going to respond with a concrete example but couldn't come up
with one. On the flip side, what do you think we would lose by mandating
that a server had to carry out the operation before returning HTTP 303?
I mean, can you come up with a concrete optimization that would benefit
from leaving this unspecified?
Thanks,
Gili
Received on Thursday, 4 July 2013 06:15:30 UTC