<tim>I had a quick look through the HTTP/1.1 spec, and didn't see anything that states this categorically. In fact, Section 9.6 (PUT) states: "HTTP/1.1 does not define how a PUT method affects the state of an origin server." Now, how many clients do a GET just to check what they actually will retrieve after a successful PUT!</tim> The reason HTTP/1.1 says this is that the GET and PUT could be to a dynamic resource or database query. It is up to the semantics of the resource type (MIME type) to determine the meaning of GET and PUT. HTTP only says what's on the wire.Received on Friday, 9 February 2001 10:38:17 GMT
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