This document describes the "batch stat" API end-point, for checking the size/existence of multiple blobs when the client and/or server do not support SPDY or HTTP/2.0. See blob-upload-protocol.txt for more background. Notably: the HTTP method may be GET or POST. GET is more correct but be aware that HTTP servers and proxies start to suck around the 2k and 4k URL lengths. If you're stat'ing more than ~37 blobs, using POST would be safest. The HTTP request path is $blobRoot/camli/stat. See blob-upload-protocol.txt and discovery.txt for background. In either case, the request form values: (either in the URL for GET or application/x-www-form-urlencoded body for POST) camliversion required Version of camlistore and/or stat protocol; reserved for future use. Must be "1" for now. blob optional/ Must start at 1 and go up, no gaps allowed, not repeated zero-padded, etc. Value is a blobref, e.g "sha1-9b03f7aca1ac60d40b5e570c34f79a3e07c918e8" There's no defined limit on how many you include here, but servers may return a 400 Bad Request if you ask for too many. All servers should support <= 1000 though. maxwaitsec optional The client may send this, an integer max number of seconds the client is willing to wait for the arrival of blobs. If the server supports long-polling (an optional feature), then the server will return immediately if all the requested blobs or available, or wait up until this amount of time for the blobs to become available. The server's reply must include "canLongPoll" set to true if the server supports this feature. Even if the server supports long polling, the server may cap 'maxwaitsec' and wait for less time than requested by the client. Examples: GET /some-blob-root/camli/stat?camliversion=1&blob1=sha1-9b03f7aca1ac60d40b5e570c34f79a3e07c918e8 HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com -or- POST /some-blob-root/camli/stat HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Host: example.com camliversion=1& blob1=sha1-9b03f7aca1ac60d40b5e570c34f79a3e07c918e8& blob2=sha1-abcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcd& blob3=sha1-deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef -------------------------------------------------- Response: -------------------------------------------------- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: ... Content-Type: text/javascript { "stat": [ {"blobRef": "sha1-abcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcd", "size": 12312} ], "canLongPoll": true } Response keys: stat required Array of {"blobRef": BLOBREF, "size": INT_bytes} for blobs that the system already has. Empty list if no blobs are already present. canLongPoll optional Set to true (type boolean) if the server supports long polling. If not true, the server ignores the client's "maxwaitsec" parameter.