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Re: Draft v1 Update for Resumable Uploads

From: Eric J Bowman <mellowmutt@zoho.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 22:32:07 -0700
To: "Eric J Bowman" <mellowmutt@zoho.com>
Cc: "Lucas Pardue" <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com>, "Glenn Strauss" <gs-lists-ietf-http-wg@gluelogic.com>, "Guoye Zhang" <guoye_zhang@apple.com>, "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1817f98c716.bbb55ba641039.2907538502435258360@zoho.com>
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> The problem is already solved if the roles are reversed:

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> Customer: POSTs URI of file to Vendor

> Vendor: GETs the file from Customer

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> Yeah, yeah... easier said than done. So is making HTTP stateful.

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To elaborate... I've never coded a browser. However, almost every webserver project I've ever been involved with since circa '96 has used libcurl to fire off a GET to some other server, in response to a GET from a browser, so all my servers are also clients. Why can't that GET go right back through the tunnel for a file:// URI provided in a POST?



I don't have an ivory tower to climb down from, just a skunkworks to crawl out of (ask my dogs, lol). After I got my B.S. in Chemistry, I went skiing for a few years, before opening my ISP / Web shop. When I worked the top lift shack, I would read the foundational RFC's I'd printed off (dot matrix tractor feed) the night before, as they downloaded from Compuserve at 2400 baud (on a Packard Bell 486).



Never met nor corresponded with Jon Postel, but I couldn't have gotten a better education even if Internet *was* taught when I was at University, or even after when Evi Nemeth was my friend, neighbor (weekends, while ashore), and mentor -- although I was not a munchkin.



[link] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel

[link] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_Nemethhttps://www.admin.com/samples/EviTribute.pdfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_Nemeth

[link] https://www.admin.com/samples/EviTribute.pdf


We all stand on the shoulders of giants. If I live another year I'll be older than Jon Postel or Jerry Garcia? Man that makes me feel old. But I know both of the departed souls I linked to above, are more than happy that I try to build on their legacies. I consider Jon's 200+ RFCs and Evi's book, required reading. Also Roy's dissertation, when it comes to HTTP.



-Eric
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