- From: <dib@dib-online.info>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:43:16 +0100
- To: www-tag@w3.org
- Cc: Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM
Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM> wrote:
> / "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com> was heard to say:
> | 2. People who click on things are used to getting
> | back a page or opening a dialog. Autosubscribing
> | based on a click seems like a bad idea. It doesn't
>
> It would also be a violation of web architecture as GETs are supposed
> to be safe :-)
Can someone clarify/explain this?
My reading of the web architecture draft is that your server MAY NOT
infer anything from the fact that my client retreived a feed
representation (e.g.: it shouldn't add me to a ('push') email list).
That's very different from saying that my client MAY NOT then do
something with that representation once retrieved (e.g.: add it to a
local list, thereby subscribing me to a ('pull') Atom/RSS/whatever
feed).
Rather than being a matter of web architecture, isn't that latter option
down to me, firmly in the realm of which client I choose to use and how
I choose to configure/empower it?
Sincerely,
David Bruce
Received on Thursday, 11 December 2003 10:44:35 UTC