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by korvkorvkorv 4616 days ago
You guys and your fancy HTTP services. Discard should be enough for everyone. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc863
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Discard is fundamentally flawed. Because the service does not provide a response the client cannot reliably determine whether the data was successfully discarded.

Without a response there's the possibility that your data could be lost on its way to being thrown away, and you'd never know.