- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:56:22 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
-------- Julian Reschke writes: > Am 04.11.2020 um 14:24 schrieb Poul-Henning Kamp: > > It might be a good idea to hash out a couple of general mechanisms > > in the spec, to provide mechanisms for traffic/load-engineering, > > at the very least something like "Dont-repeat-this-SEARCH: <seconds>" ? > > That's all very interesting, but why is this relevant now, but not for > existing uses of POST we want to replace? Because this is the century of the fruitbat, and we're trying to do a better job than back in the dark ages where things were just slapped together ? Because SEARCH has much narrower and therefore more manageable semantics than POST, which can literally be and do anything ? -- 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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