On 12/14/06, Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe I first saw this in a response made by Roy Fielding to an assertion that servers must treat HTTP PUT as a bit-for-bit copy, but I can't immediately find the reference.
http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg05425.html
In any case: clients must always consider the possibility that the server processes other requests (even internally generated ones) between the time the one the client issued and the next request the server choses to process. Such requests could partially or completely change the representation of the resource. - Sam Ruby
-- Joe Gregorio http://bitworking.org
