[mdx] Joe on section 2.2

[Leif Johansson]

On 10/01/2013 06:23 PM, Ian Young wrote:
> On 1 Oct 2013, at 15:53, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> My impression was that Leif was saying exactly that, but I'll let him
>> speak to that.
> What I heard was a claim that there were multiple sophisticated HTTP libraries in Python, which I'm prepared to accept[1]. What I didn't hear, and what I think the important consideration is here, is a claim that some or all of those assume that you do cacheing using HEAD and are unable to perform conditional GET.
>
> 	-- Ian
I don't think this is typically python - we should be able to sample a
set of HTTP libraries and figure out what they do and let that
information guide the decision. What does net.http (or whatever its
called) in java do?