The server MUST accept all valid HTTP GET requests to the subscriberlocation. All other request methods SHOULD be responded to with a 405 Method Not Allowedstatus code.
Subscriber requests are considered notifications of intent to receive some message. Subscribers may request existing messages, messages that are not yet available, and messages that are no longer available. The requested message is identified using the If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match request headers. A request with no If-Modified-Since header MUST be assumed to be requesting the oldest available message in a channel. Each 200 OK response containing a message MUST have itsLast-Modified and Etag headers set so that a request using those headers will be interpreted as a request for the next available message. Additionally, said 200 OKMUST contain the Content-Type header of the message publisher request, unless no Content-Type header had been provided or it is explicitly overridden by server configuration.
There are several common mechanisms for performing an HTTP server push. The rest of the behavior of the server in response to a subscriber request SHOULD be configurable and MUST be selected from the following list of mechanisms:
Long-Polling
Requests for existing messages will be responded to immediately; responses to requests for messages not yet available MUST be delayed until the message becomes available. Delayed responses MUST satisfy all of the following conditions:
A 200 OK response containing the message (and its Content-Type) MUST be sent immediately after the message becomes available
. The entire response must be indistinguishable from a response to a request for an existing message.
If the channel the subscriber is waiting on is deleted or for some reason becomes unavailable, the server MUST immediately send a 410 Gone response.
If another subscriber has conflicted with this request, the server MUST immediately send a 409 Conflict response.
Interval-Polling
All requests will be responded to immediately. Requests for messages not yet available MUST produce a 304 Not Modified response code.
In addition, when the server receives more than one concurrent subscriber request on the same channel, it MUST do one of the following:
Broadcast
No additional actions are performed
Last-in, first-out
All but the most recent long-held subscriber request on the channel are sent a 409 Conflict response.
First-in, last-out
All but the oldest request will be sent a 409 Conflict
The server SHOULD make this selection configurable, and MUST default to broadcast behavior.
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The server MUST accept all valid HTTP requests to the publisher location. The server, when sent a publisher request, MUST satisfy all of the following conditions:
GET requests receive a 200 OK response for existing channels and a 404 Not Found otherwise.
PUT requests receive a 200 OK response. The request creates a channel if no channel with the given channel id exists.
DELETE requests receive a 200 OK if the channel identified by the channel id exists and has been completely deleted. All subscribers MUST have been sent a410 Gone response. Requests for nonexistent channels MUST be responded to with a 404 Not Found.
POST requests are used to send messages. The request MAY contain a body in any encoding representing a message to be sent over the channel. Themessage MUST be immediately delivered to all currently long-held subscriber requests. Additionally, the message MAY be stored for future retrieval and the oldest message stored for the channel MAY be deleted.
A POST request MUST be replied to with a 201 Created if there were any long-held subscribers that have been sent this message, and with a 202 Acceptedotherwise.
The Content-Type header of the request MUST be forwarded with the message.