- From: Geoffrey M. Clemm <gclemm@tantalum.atria.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:03:38 -0400
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
From: Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> jamsden@us.ibm.com wrote: > ... > suggest we add a BATCH command to HTTP/WebDAV I believe this won't buy you anything over HTTP/1.1 connection pipelining. You'll still transfer just as much information, and you'll still use a single TCP connection. About the only thing that this could do would provide for the potential for atomicity. IMO, that isn't enough of a win to compare to this additional complexity. At various times, I've heard the reason given for having an additional header or an additional method that just does the work of a couple of simpler methods as "it avoids a round trip to the server, and my users care deeply about avoiding round trips". If I can just invoke "HTTP-1.1 pipelining", and make those suggestions go away, then I'm happy. If it doesn't make the suggestions go away, but the BATCH method does, then I'm in favor of BATCH. Cheers, Geoff
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