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>If I had my way, we'd drop the simple-GET way of getting the explain
>record completely, and just have the proper explainRequest. After
>all, any application that's going to make use of the explain record
>will need to have the necessary mechanisms anyway.
>
>A rule of thumb that I find useful: whenever someone asks "What
>happens if this paramater is omitted?" I try to consider whether
>there's any reason for that to be allowed at all. Sometimes there
is,
>but not always.
The problem is others also might say "if I had it my way" and let their
servers allow different things.Don't you expect many servers to be
"nice" for their local clients? We cannot control that. You cannot send
an illegal request to a server and then send a diagnostic to tell the
server that it should have returned a diagnostic on that invalid
request. I'm playing here the devil's advocate.
Theo
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