From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:10:16 GMT
Subject: Re: HTTP pushes
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511012008310.11979@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20051101020248.GA3928@reactrix.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Nick Hengeveld wrote:

> HTTP is currently listed as a read-only/unsupported method for doing
> pushes, is that due to inherent problems with HTTP or just because
> it hasn't been written yet?
> 
> I've built a working prototype of an HTTP push implementation using DAV.

I think this is useful. There are restrictive firewalls out there, which 
only allow ports 80 and 443 to be connected to. Your work would fit in 
right there.

BTW, if the push would be relatively big, it would be nice to support 
pushing packs...

Ciao,
Dscho