Re: HTTP working group status & issues (please reply)
Foteos Macrides (MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU)
Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:18:09 -0500 (EST)
mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) wrote:
>> the header suggestion (e.g. Idempotent: yes | no) has the benefit that
>> CGI scripts can include it as META tag [...] The problem, though, is that it
>> "begs" to be used for GET as well.
>
>This isn't a problem, this is a feature. I *want* to be able to tag
>the results of a GET as NOT being idempotent. Or can you provide a way
>to create a link (as opposed to a form submit button) that uses POST
>for data?
That's OK with me, and would be useful for any contemporary
client. I simply was respecting the concern that was expressed about
it being problematic for some HTTP/1.0 caching servers and old clients
designed to assume GETs always are idempotent, while not wanting to pass
on an Idempotent: yes | no header at least for POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.
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