US (NVO/VAO) opinions on HTTP GET in VOSpace 2.0

Douglas Tody dtody at nrao.edu
Thu Oct 1 16:34:19 PDT 2009


On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Dave Morris wrote:
> If standard HTTP GET works for your data, then please use a webserver.
> If you just want to serve data using HTTP GET there is no need to use 
> VOSpace, and no need to modify the VOSpace specification to meet this use 
> case.  VOSpace was intended to meet the other cases where we need to have 
> asynchronous control and more robust transfer protocols for large data 
> transfers.

What about basic authenticated, resource controlled, per-user network
storage?  Or table integration via TAP?  Can these be supported as well?

 	- Doug



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