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Subject:	Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Thu, 6 Apr 2000 03:31:17 GMT
Reply-To:	MATTDM@MATTDM.antispamORG
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote: > 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. 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..... -- Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/

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		Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
(...) I guess the client doesn't really care about the history of the message rating, but that would be the best way to adjust the clients view of messages rating... though I assume the client will be able to query the ratings of a message (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
(...) Me too. (What did you think I was thinking about?) (...) Yeh. For streaming clients, so they can update their ratings in an extremely time and bandwidth-efficient way. --Todd (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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