From: Larry Masinter (LM@att.com)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 21:09:57 PST
If you want to be a HTTP-abuser (see [1] in [2]) I recommend POST.
It's as good as BREW [3] or INVOKE or anything else closely related.
[1] http://www.w3.org/2000/03/xp65435/LM_HTTP_extensions.ppt
[2] http://www.w3.org/2000/03/xp65435/
[3] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt
GET means GET because common, widely deployed and highly tuned
elements of the Internet infrastructure use caches that try to
optimize GETs. Even though thousands of individuals each, in
their corner of the net, can get client-server applications to work
nicely using GET to cause their coffee pots to perk, if you
try to deploy it out in the wide world, it won't work.
"Running code" is necessary but not sufficient.
Larry
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