- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:39:09 -0600
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- CC: HTML WG List <public-html@w3.org>
Mark Baker wrote: > As I see it, the message is "turn this URI into some data please", > which is safe and idempotent (by definition: all safe messages are > idempotent). Ian replied to this with pretty much exactly what I had been going to say. I just want to reiterate that the idea of "ping" is to track what the user selects. Each time the user selects something, it's a new event that needs to be recorded. Hence it's non-idempotent. As a simple example, a site that provides search results could use of pings to order those results (the ones users follow more could float toward the top of the list). This is one of the things ping is meant to support, in fact. And in this situation, pings are clearly non-idempotent. -Boris
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