- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:36:33 -0800
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
I am interested in the group's opinion on the Notify Request header proposal in Section 6. Do you think this is a good idea, or a bad idea? Server implementors -- how difficult would such a mechanism be to implement? >6. Notify Request Header (proposal, for comment) > >Whenever the NotifyRequest header is included in an HTTP request, the >server should send update information on the progress of a request. > >Notify_Request = "NotifyRequest" ":" > >It is common, in asynchronous environments, to provide a mechanism to >describe the status of a request as it is processed. As we provide for >more and more powerful methods, which have longer and longer processing >times, might we not want a similar feature for HTTP? Thanks! - Jim
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