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> Bound to be fresh if it's resident on the origin server, no?
> Come to think of it, the entity body could list additional target
> URIs... apply googly-eye filter to all kitty pics. Haha, lolz, now
> revert on all non-Hitler kitties.
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I'm not suggesting to change RFC 5789 regarding atomicity of the transaction. However, this is the first use-case I've come up with for server push. I want a 204 back for each file, or directory, listed in my PATCH entity-body. Then I can re-send individual requests for any missing links, after an appropriate timeout.
Note that while my example takes 2-3 round trips to implement, the result can be pretty much an infinite number of files PATCHed. Maybe PATCH _can_ be anarchically scalable? When needed.
-Eric