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

Ian Hickson wrote:
> ...
> I agree that a new method would be better. I'm not sure it is a feasible 
> solution, though, given the high cost (in terms of spec development and 
> server development and deployment) of a new method. We can't just invent a 
> new method; not withstanding that we'd get quickly stoned, we'd also not 
> soon be able to implement it server side (e.g. in Apache).
> ...

I'm not going to say that a new method is needed (a I still think GET is 
fine). But I also think that you're overestimating the cost of 
introducing new methods. For this purpose, analyzing the log file would 
be completely sufficient, right?

BR, Julian