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Re: more politics

• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: more politics
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:23:14 -0700
• Cc: Mike Champion <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
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Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> The whole "GETs must be side effect free" is a spec bug as far as I'm concerned. I can understand saying that they should be idempotent but besides opening the door to a bunch of metaphysical discussions aboutt "what exactly constitutes a side effect" I don't see what purpose that part of the spec serves. 

Right.  Basically every GET writes a logfile record as a minimum.  I'm 
more comfy with language along the lines of "GET does not incur new 
obligations."  Which is actually functionally necessary for caches and 
proxies to work. -Tim

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