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Re: Generality of HTTP


Re:  Generality of HTTP
> As an simple example, take any business transaction more long-winded 
> than typing in credit card number, hitting a submit button and getting
> a near instant response. Perhaps the transaction has to be approved by 
> a person, so processing takes a couple of hours (maybe much longer if 
> it arrives late on a Friday evening). What might the requestor want to 
> do in the interim? Disconnect from the network? Move to a different 
> endpoint? Or perhaps there's a network partition during the 
> transaction, or an unfriendly intermediary decides to time out an 
> apparently idle connection.
> 
> HTTP just wasn't designed for that kind of communication model.

You'd be surprised.  The architectural style used to craft HTTP is
certainly capable of a lot more than what HTTP can currently do.
So you'd need extensions for some things (though not, I believe,
for the example you describe above).

Consider what might be possible with vanilla HTTP 1.1 and;
- a web server near the user (such as in the browser, ala KnowNow)
- intermediaries adding value with queueing, caching, filtering,
routing, etc..

MB
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Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
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