Re: Feedback on the ping="" attribute (ISSUE-1)

On 11/7/07, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> Can we agree that for ping a series of identical messages is NOT in fact the
> same as just one?  And that therefore ping is not idempotent?

Hmm, no.  I agree that the server won't behave idempotently, but the
ping messages themselves have to be idempotent and safe because they
came to be as a result of a user clicking a link.

Mark.
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Received on Wednesday, 7 November 2007 05:36:41 UTC