Re: Seeking clarification about the use of the HTTP binding
Mark Baker <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 01:42:04PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Finally, I think there's a case to be made that this is a significant > misuse of HTTP itself, which has a pretty strong notion of > request/response on a POST (you couldn't send the header on a GET.) I don't think it's quite that strong, Noah. I believe that the 202 "Accepted" response provides the desired "out" here, by being "intentionally non-committal". I've used it myself, on occasion, for exactly the scenario described. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca