- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:06:07 -0400
- To: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- cc: "'Larry Masinter'" <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, "'ejw@kleber.ics.uci.edu'" <ejw@kleber.ics.uci.edu>, "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
In message <c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-44-MSG-961029200115Z-1264@INET-03-IMC.itg.mic rosoft.com>, Yaron Goland writes: > >My conclusion is that the cache consistency problem is inherent to the >current cache infrastructure and that using methods does not solve this >problem. > >One final note, using methods or using POST w/mime types are absolutely >semantically equivalent. So any problem you bring up with POST w/mime types >will also exist with methods. Methods are semantically equivalient to POST w/mime types iff the spec says they are. That's the beauty of new methods: they can have new semantics. I don't have any strong intuitions, but I think it's possible new methods could usefully address some caching issues. I'd have to see a spec. Dan
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