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Lloyd Wood wrote:
> Having a sender using a unidirectional transmit-only link add a
> Connection: cannot-hear-response
> or similar header to its PUT request as a warning to the receiver
> seems straightforward.
> 
> Of limited utility, in very rare unusual situations.

Agreed. My only point was that such an HTTP directive does not yet
exist. HTTP is currently a two-party protocol, and cannot work
unidirectionally until altered to do so.

Joe

> On 8 Jun 2009, at 14:55, Joe Touch wrote:
>>
>> Lloyd Wood wrote:
>> ...
>>> use of PUT gets around the initial request and response for long-delay
>>> links.
>> ...
>>> again, PUT allows that. The responses (if any - I can see a case for
>>> blind unidirectional PUTs) get daisy-chained into the persistent
>>> pipeline going the other way.
>>
>> It's easy to implement PUT without a response.
>>
>>     http-over-dtb PUT-request.txt >> /dev/null
>>
>> A return response code (succeed/fail) is required, or this isn't HTTP
>> anymore.
> 
> DTN work: http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/saratoga/
> 
> <http://info.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><[email protected]>
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