Re: Resumable Uploads

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Thu, 18 April 2013 21:20 UTC

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On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Felix Geisendörfer wrote:

> The first draft for this can be seen here [1]. I'm new to protocol 
> authorship, so please forgive any ignorance you may see in my work. This is 
> no attempt at competing with existing standards, I merely want to identify 
> the relevant subsets of http and make them easy for people to implement.

My initial view on this:

"Resume" would be better replaced with "sending a part of a remote resource to 
get applied on the remote side", and in your most common case that part of 
data would modify the end of the remote resource (by adding data to it).

Said like that, isn't that what PATCH is?

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