Re: Proposed HTML ping attribute

Looking at <http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2008/01/10-minutes#item03>:

> TBL: use of POST is coherent in that GET might be cached and not update a counter.

For the record: a GET (or a HEAD) request can be sent in a way 
(cache-control: no-cache) such that intermediaries are disallowed to 
return a cached response. So cacheability itself IMHO is not an argument 
in favor of POST.

BR, Julian

Received on Saturday, 19 January 2008 12:08:10 UTC