Re: Beacon API

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Reitbauer, Alois
<Alois.Reitbauer@compuware.com> wrote:
> You are right we would not need any progress events and you are also
> typically not interested in the response. The server should normally reply
> only with a no content reply. Conceptually this reply would not be needed,
> however, HTTP requires it. You can think of this type of interaction like
> sending an UDP packet. You want it to be send and delivered at best
> effort.

Are you sometimes interested in the response? Kind of makes a difference.

Also, how is this different from
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#ping Especially if
we make this a dedicated feature in some way it seems all the same
considerations apply and that feature has thus far not been hugely
successful.


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Received on Thursday, 14 February 2013 10:04:41 UTC