> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 5:06 AM
> The protocol draft allows for clients to retry failed requests (7.5.2), > but does not specify exponential back-off or any such protective > measure > on the client side of things. Having a 'back off' error code would > allow > the server to indicate the client is retrying too hard. This can > optionally be coupled with optional redirection, which would allow us > to > specify the contract explicitly as opposed to relying on HTTP-level > contracts matching our intent. Perhaps this is a useful protective measure: If the server has reached a safe load threshold and continues to serve 307 status; the server could optionally indicate cache-control and provide a basis for 408 Request Timeout client error status actions. Marcus Williams _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
