On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:02:37PM +0100, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: > Using OPTIONS has the advantage of being backwards compatible, if you > send OPTIONS to a plain-old HTTP receiver, the standard ACK can be > taken to mean "yep, I'm here". Intelligent backends (read: modify > tomcat and co slightly) can have an X-header or whatever to go > "I'm accepting this, this and this, and my current load is this".
Oh and I forgot to mention, it can be server-wide or URI-specific, which seems like desirable flexibility in this situation. -- Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
