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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P writes for directories
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:35:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bfa6a719e49e0e7c84a73d1257a8a66@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <584ACAD1-5343-4656-AEBC-8C0BFDD5724C@sun.com>

> question: is there anything that HTTP makes us lose except
> for the transactional nature of create?

sanity?

> to "create" would be POST with a metadata payload on a
> "subdirectory" URI. But of course, it is not a create at all.

i'm not sure what fine hair you're trying to split.  why can't the
post contain the same information a create would?

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-26 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-21  7:00 Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-26 19:31 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-26 19:35   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-03-26 19:50     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-26 19:56       ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 19:44   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 20:23     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-26 20:52       ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 20:54       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 22:05         ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-28  1:36           ` Uriel
2009-03-28  4:03             ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-04-19 16:43             ` Enrico Weigelt

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