- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:05:35 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jim Jewett wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > I don't understand how the semantics differ from POST, so I'm really the > > wrong person to write that document. > > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.5 > > "The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the > entity enclosed in the request" -- but there is no entity, and that > isn't what this ping is really about. Hmm... would this work?: The PING method is used to report to the origin server that the client has navigated from one resource to another on behalf of a user. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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