[Asrg] HTTP responses (was: About that summary of MUA junk button approaches

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Mon, 15 February 2010 06:53 UTC

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Subject: [Asrg] HTTP responses (was: About that summary of MUA junk button approaches
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On 15/Feb/10 03:30, Steve Atkins wrote:
>
> I saw several things I'd like to update (HTTP vs store-and-forward,[...]

I only mentioned that the web server might have different userid and 
password. This hasn't really been discussed, but one source of HTTP 
difficulty for MUAs stems from HTML responses, as they should pop up a 
browser window. E.g. the web server may require a CAPTCHA.

OTOH, the protocol might specify SOAP or JSON approaches, where 
interactivity is not required nor wanted.