[6595] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: An alarming trend in METHOD=POST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Un)
Wed Nov 9 06:02:23 1994
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 11:34:16 +0100
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From: lilley@v5.cgu.mcc.ac.uk (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit)
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James Pitkow wrote:
> Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>> If however the function has side-effects [...]
>> [...] and you put
>> one in your hotlist. And every day your client refreshes
>> cached copies of everything in your hotlist...
>> POST is appropriate here.
> The notion of client refreshes of hotlist items is worrisome wrt POST.
You should not have POST items in a hotlist. How could you put them in?
> Can POST really be cached or added to a hotlist correctly?
No. That is the point. Things which should not be in a hotlist use a method
other than GET, so they can't be put in a hot list. That is, I believe, what
TimBL was saying.
--
Chris
