Re: 1xx Clarification
Scott Lawrence (lawrence@agranat.com)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:11:54 -0400 (EDT)
> I believe the argument against a bit-bucket is that the server has to waste
> resources to consume the incoming bits, and network bandwidth gets wasted at a
> time when we're trying to reduce HTTP-induced network bandwidth. It's hard to
> know how much of a problem either of these *really* is. Does anyone have
> numbers for how often servers reject PUT/POST because they can't accept the
> content? My guess is it's not a big problem yet. Can we afford to defer the
> solution until it is?
>
> Dave Kristol
The most frequent case for our implementation at least will, I suspect,
be when the server has configured different realms for serving and
submitting a form. This turns out to be a common situation in an
embedded system because it saves memory and simplifies interface design;
the same page is used to display current configuration information and to
change it, but the authentication required is different.