Re: zOGI - lightweight response from putObject

[email protected] Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:12:15 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.xmlrpc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > gzip encoding responses.  I'm not sure how that will work with 
> > Apache/Sope/xml-rpc/zOGI. 
> 
> It should happen now if the client advertises that it supports it.  This
> is the default behavior of SOPE and SOPE does all the HTTP plumbing.

My xml-rpc implementation does not seem to accept gzip encoding by 
default, so I'll look into fixing that. 

> You do have the data, but only assuming it hasn't been changed on the
> server by another user/process.   Version detection SHOULD prevent that
> of course but one can disable version detection in the put in order to
> force an update.  By allowing that the full response is required. 

Ah.  Right.  I didn't realise that version detection could be disabled to 
force an update.

> I think this is a legitimate issue, but not a terribly high priority.

Understood.

> receiving update responses at varying levels of detail can possibly
> confuse the cache (some information in the same entity may be current
> and other information out-of-date) so full-response to modification
> requests was chosen for simplicity.

Yep, I understand.

Thanks for explaining all this at such great depth.

Bernard

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