Re: HTTP 402 in use

On 26 March 2018 at 18:47, Andrew Bransford Brown <andrewbb@gmail.com>
wrote:

> HTTP message composition must be sufficiently granular to handle all
> use cases.
>
> Here are 6 events in a contract, from initial offer to delivery:
> [1] John Offer $1
> [2] John Terms Water
> [3] Mary Agree (becomes a contract)
> [4] Mary Deliver Water
> [5] John Deliver $1
> [6] End transaction
>
> Headers to describe [1] John's Offer:
> Transaction-ID:  123
> Commerce-ID:  John
> Event-Type:  Offer
> Description:  $1
> Time-Stamp:  2018-03-26T23:40:30
>
> Headers to describe [2] John's Terms:
> Transaction-ID:  123
> Commerce-ID:  John
> Event-Type:  Terms
> Description:  Water
> Time-Stamp:  2018-03-26T23:40:31
>
> etc.
>
> Each is its own HTTP message?
>

Given the complexity that arises, it seems a little unwieldy to stuff all
of this information in headers.

Similarly to put this information in the body also can be problematic
because how do clients then cache the content, when it is changing and has
its own state diagram, for any given resource.

And putting things like a payment request in the body (although bonus marks
for having the right content type) might not allow a human readable message

Some quite tricky design trade offs

A possible solution here might be for the resource yielding a 402 to
redirect the client to a URI from which it can learn more and negotiate a
payment.

Then have a set of standard messages that can be used to pay e.g. what is
the cost, where do I send the money, how do I send it etc.

>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:10 PM, Melvin Carvalho
> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 26 March 2018 at 16:31, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Pity it only works on Lightning though... Would be nice to get some
> >> collaboration on something that works across any payment network
> >>
> >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hope-bailie-http-payments-00
> >> https://interledger.org/rfcs/0014-http-ilp/
> >>
> >> https://medium.com/interledger-blog/http-ilp-paid-api-calls-with-
> interledger-fda53643a2eb
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the pointers.
> >
> > I'm a fan of the work on lightning, however the 402 response itself
> doesnt
> > seem to be lightning specific
> >
> > So it seems that the main difference is that this work uses
> >
> > X-Token
> >
> > vs the draft using
> >
> > Pay-Token
> >
> > And the body contains bolt11 payment request
> >
> > Both approaches seem reasonable?
> >
> > Perhaps the draft could look at a variety of implementations and use
> cases.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 26 March 2018 at 13:15, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Very cool use of HTTP 402 -- Payment Required -- in the paypercall
> >>> lightning network app
> >>>
> >>> https://github.com/ElementsProject/paypercall#paying-for-api-calls
> >>
> >>
> >
>