Re: [Webpush] 202 (Accepted) and simplifying acknowledgements

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Sun, 21 February 2016 20:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Webpush] 202 (Accepted) and simplifying acknowledgements
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On 19 February 2016 at 12:26, Brian Raymor <Brian.Raymor@microsoft.com> wrote:
> A more natural flow could use 202 (Accepted) with the :push:receipt as the "status monitor".


I realize that I forgot one of the original reasons for the existing
design.  A design like you propose was considered, but not adopted
because it creates a race condition.  The acknowledgment races the
request that the application server makes to the receipt resource.

However, if your assertion is that TTL:0 messages will not be
acknowledged, and that all other messages require that the push
service persist the acknowledgments as well as the messages
themselves, I think that this is probably OK.  TTL:1 and maybe other
small values are probably a little risky, but a simple caveat might
suffice.