- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:13:11 -0500
- To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On 1/17/08, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote: > The application semantics here are defined: it is a report of > a link-following action to a monitor. People argue was to whether > it is more like an HTTP GET or HTTP POST, but whether the > ping protocol maps onto a GET or POST in HTTP is question > you don't have to answer if you get a UDP port and define an > protocol spec for it. I don't understand. The issue here, I think, is exactly whether the ping message should have GET or POST semantics (not that it'll necessarily have to use HTTP - I'm just referring to the meaning of GET and POST). Whether TCP or UDP is used as a transport seems immaterial. I certainly agree that UDP has advantages for that kind of message though. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
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