The HTTPbis project aims to publish an RFC about what http is like in the real world as of the past year or so. These slides are worth a read for considerations of wapi design or an architectural shift from foolscap to http:
http://www.slideshare.net/mnot/whats-up-with-http The goal is to answer questions such as: How well supported is the PUT verb? What is the maximum practical length for URLs? Headers? Do many clients support Content-Range? Nathan _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
