- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 16:08:28 -0700
- To: Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>
- Cc: http wg discussion <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
You said: A proxy cannot forward a method it doesn't understand. Why not? It seems to me this places an unnecessary limitation on the protocol without reason. (OK, you might have a reason, but you didn't state it, and it isn't obvious). Otherwise, the only "extension" methods possible in HTTP are ones that are defined in the spec -- another limitation I also do not see any reason for. Why not allow servers to define their own methods, that will work in special ways with client software that they distribute? Why define it so that intervening caches would break that? And by your rule as stated above, they would. --Shel
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