- From: Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:03:29 -0400
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, IETF HTTP WG <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2013-08-10, at 5:37 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > In message <20130810092804.GO4079@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes: > >> I disagree with deprecating it, it's the only way to send non-idempotent >> request over a reused connection. > > Not really. > > Send the headers, wait a RTT to see if you get an ACK, if not abandon. > > It's much faster than using Expect and at least as realiable. Not really, no. Many server implementations, in the absence of an Expect header, will simply consume the entire POST/PUT and *then* respond. _________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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