Re: Proposal for a way to avoid a round-trip on every POST when dealing with large numbers of URIs

+1

On Jan 31, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Close, Tyler J. wrote:

>
> I'm having trouble understanding the proposed solution. Could  
> someone provide an alternate explanation or a sample protocol  
> exchange?
>
> Thanks,
> --Tyler
>
> John Panzer wrote:
>> Ian Hickson wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Problem: Some HTTP-based protocols, like AtomPub, require
>> the use of a
>>> large number of distinct URIs. For example, adding a tag or
>> category to a
>>> series of posts on a blog using AtomPub requires one
>> non-GET request per
>>> blog post. While this is prohibitively expensive anyway
>> when done from a
>>> high-latency network like GSM or EDGE, it is still somewhat
>> painful to
>>> require two round trips per non-GET request in cases like
>> this even on
>>> low-latency high-bandwidth connections, and therefore
>> deserves further
>>> consideration.
>>>
>>> Proposed Solution: The proposed solution allows one new
>> optional header
>>> for OPTIONS responses. The header contains a path.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>> This proposal effectively addresses the performance & server side
>> scalability concerns I had with the cross-domain access
>> control mechanism.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John Panzer
>> Tech Lead/Manager, Google (Blogger, OpenSocial, & Friends)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

Received on Thursday, 31 January 2008 19:49:21 UTC