Re: [dnsext] draft-mohan-dns-query-xml-00.txt

Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org> Mon, 03 October 2011 17:10 UTC

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On Monday, October 03, 2011 15:54:24 Wessels, Duane wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2011, at 9:58 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > my observation is, we should not be using GET at all, nor should we be
> > encoding the query into the URI.  We should use POST and our request body
> 
> I have a slight preference for GET over POST.  I find GET simpler to
> implement (maybe code size isn't a concern) and probably more likely
> to get through.  OTOH I also like that POST has the content-length
> header.

what's your view of the need to someday express UPDATE, and to include future 
extensions to QUERY (like more stuff in the additional section)?  if those 
seem like worthwhile goals, then we really need to put the request into the 
body rather than into the URI or into the http headers.  that calls for POST.
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