Re: proposal for new HTTP/1.0 directive
Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Sun, 5 Dec 93 02:00:55 -0800
Rob McCool writes:
> /*
> * proposal for new HTTP/1.0 directive by Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
> * written on Nov 27, 2:28pm.
> *
> * It occasionally is useful to have the results of a HTTP/1.0
> * transaction return *nothing* (no significant response data) -- the
> * client should not display a new document or do anything else other
> * than stay on exactly the same document it's already on.
> *
> * An example of where this would be useful: tape-deck-style
> * fast-forward/stop/reverse/play/pause/etc. controls implemented with
> * forms or hyperlinks as part of a multicasting transmission
> * application. You want to be able to trigger as many actions as you
> * want (play, pause, play, fast-forward, play, etc.) without moving to a
> * different document each time.
> *
> * How about "204 NoResponse"?
> */
>
> I second the motion. I've gotten several people asking for a way to do that
> exact thing from scripts.
Having received no other comments, I'm going to code it for Mosaic
2.1. Tim, can you add it to the spec?
Marc