Re: 'PUT' transaction reconsidered (was Re: two-phase send concerns )

Rich Salz (rsalz@osf.org)
Thu, 28 Dec 1995 00:51:03 -0500


>Would anyone like to argue that more than 25% of PUTs (and similar
>HTTP methods) are going to be rejected?  To me, this seems unlikely
>(most users will learn not to ask for things that the servers don't
>allow), but I don't have enough experience to know.

Only two examples come to my mind, both of which I put in the
not impossible area:
    Using HTTP for replication consistency
    Recasting Usenet (and NNTP) into an HTTP modus operandi

	/r$