- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:31:30 -0500
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jim Jewett wrote: >> 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. I wouldn't use the word "origin", since the host being pinged may not have sent anything to the client before. I do not know how well a new method will work across proxies in practice. Other than that, it meets all objections of which I am aware. -jJ
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