Mike Taylor wrote:

>>Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:48:45 +0000
>>From: Dr Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>
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>>>1. Since POST does not have similar size limitations.. Update or
>>>other services will work (better).
>>>
>>>
>>Well, we do talk about this size limitiation. But has anyone
>>actually hit it in practice? Has anyone even demonstrated that
>>current servers fail to process queries > 1024 characters?
>>
>>
>
>If SRU don't support POST then we can forget about ever having an
>SRU-based update service.  And if there isn't one, then implementors
>will roll their own instead of using the currently proposed SRW-like
>Update, and bang goes interoperability.
>
>
>
Not at all - now you invent a new reason to use SRU/POST, but clearly
the discussion last month on UPDATE shows that this was not planned to
be a part of SRU/SRW, but another, parallel protocol.

So let's not mix apples and pears in the SRU/POST discussion.

Marc





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