Re: REPOST (was: HTTP working group status & issues)
Dave Kristol (dmk@research.bell-labs.com)
Mon, 7 Oct 96 10:00:31 EDT
Let me inject a practical and quasi-political consideration into the
discussion about "Redo-safe: yes" and friends.
Foteos Macrides has pointed out the things a user agent would have to
remember to set a bookmark for a POST-ed item, including method,
Content-type, and POST content. Now, some user agents construct HTML
pages to support their bookmarks. What HTML mark-up would encode a
POST-style bookmark?
Yes, vendors could return to keeping their bookmarks in an internal
form. But the quasi-political consideration is that vendors that are
committed to the HTML approach may have no way to represent the
POST-able bookmarks. Those vendors that take compatibility seriously
will be in a bind.
Dave Kristol