Re: draft-cohen-http-ext-postal-00.txt
From: Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Date: Fri, Feb 27 1998
Message-ID: <00fd01bd43e3$81f81bc0$f467010d@bronze.parc.xerox.com>
From: "Larry Masinter" <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
To: "Josh Cohen" <joshco@microsoft.com>, <koen@win.tue.nl>, <ietf-http-ext@w3.org>
Cc: <rdebry@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:55:05 PST
Subject: Re: draft-cohen-http-ext-postal-00.txt
For what it's worth, my opinion on POSTal:
Whether an operation deserves a new method depends on whether the >operation
is likely to be applied to the same resource that ALSO might respond to >GET,
POST, or PUT. Otherwise, you're better off using an existing method with >a different
URI or content-type or modified headers.
In the case of WebDAV, the protocol is adding new operations to existing >resources.
In the case of IPP, the protocol is actually just being applied to new >resources ("printers").
So WebDAV needs new methods, but IPP can use POST without a problem.
The "firewall" issue is a red herring. (Yes, it's red. No, it's >irrelevant.)
Larry