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Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
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Thu, 6 Apr 2000 03:07:45 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> It'd definitely be cool to be able to get ranges all at once, but why
> timestamp rather than message number?

Timestamp because the server would need to know at what time the client last
asked for the ratings.  Changes since a given message number isn't sufficient
because it provides too little information -- it would end up having to report
back more and more each time.  You might have 2,000 messages in your reader
and it should be very low-bandwidth to receive an update on a message 3 days
old, if someone goes back and rates it.  Your client shouldn't have to endure
(neither should the server) sending a complete copy of the ratings for the
past 2000 messages -- only the ones which have changed since the last time the
client asked.  Thus, perhaps message number plus timestamp, but not message
number without timestamp.

--Todd



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  Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
 
(...) Oh! I am thinking of "rating" as the number displayed with a message on the web site. Are you saying that you'd spit out the entire rating history of the message, for the client to do something with? Hmmm..... (26 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
 
(...) Yeah, I meant for actually posting in a message as a link. (Something I'm sure you really would prefer people not do, so disabling GET requests is a great idea.) (...) I can see that for polling, but what about the first time you're querying (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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