Re: NEWRESOURCE

[Greg Stein <gstein@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:50:40AM -0600, Antone Roundy wrote:
> 
> >The original problem came up with, "I just tried a PUT of my 1 gig 
> >video
> >file, but it failed -- there was something else there. Damn. Now I 
> >have to
> >choose another name, and send the file *again*." My suggestion for
> >NEWRESOURCE stemmed from that problem -- avoid retrying.
> 
> Perhaps a good approach would be for the client to do something like 
> this:

Sure. There are a number of different strategies to accomplish the same
kind of thing. Also note that the use of the Expect: header would
eliminate much of the problems around that 1 gig file.

In any case, the suggestion for NEWRESOURCE was to simply wrap all of that
up to avoid varying strategies, and to also provide a mechanism to clients
who really didn't care about naming [and don't want to have to come up
with one].

Cheers,
-g