On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Brian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PUT is almost always better than POST; if you experience network > failures, you can retry the PUT without any ill effects. If you use > POST, and your experience a network partition before you get the > response, how will you determine whether or not the POST succeeded? See > "Post Once Exactly" (http://www.mnot.net/blog/2005/03/21/poe), HTTPLR > (http://dehora.net/doc/httplr/draft-httplr-01.html), and their related > discussions.
Thanks Brian - I think I meant PUT... I've been using the batch POST (which acts like PUT if you specify the document_id) so I spoke a little fuzzily. And that's an extremely clear rational for PUT. Chris -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
