Re: Issue 5; GET vs GetLastTradePrice

Mark Baker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.ws-arch
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:13:57AM -0800, David Orchard wrote:
> 2.  Optimization for GET means that optimization for another verb, say POST,
> is harder.

Eh?  You can't easily optimize for POST, because the meaning of POST
doesn't permit it.

What kind of optimizations would you like to see for a non-idempotent,
unsafe method?

> 3. The web security model is pretty badly broken in some areas.  The very
> fact that a server can't time-out an HTTP log-in,

Erm, yes it can.  A server can send a 401 any time it feels like it,
for any reason.

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