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

[Douglas Tody]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Dave Morris wrote:

> On 02/10/09 00:19, Douglas Tody wrote:
>> 
>> Very commonly a server is dedicated to these services and there is no
>> conventional Web server.
>
> Sorry, lost me there, if you don't have a web server .... then how were you 
> intending to implement the DAL or SIAP service ?

In an application server, typically (tomcat etc.).  Running VO services
such as SIA, vospace, etc.  Often a machine is dedicated to this purpose
with no conventional Web server.  (I am assuming that "web server" does
not equate to HTTP GET).

>> In any case, we need VOSpace for per-user storage management for 
>> asynchronous services,
>> for table integration with TAP (where the file is also a DBMS table), and 
>> so forth.
>
> Which is what the existing VOSpace specification is intended to support.

Well then we need it and a mere Web server won't do.

 	- Doug