On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 21:07 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: > Scott Lawrence wrote: > > But you could just as easily and precisely define those semantics by > > using POST and defining the mime type and operations it supports. > > In which case I couldn't use the content-type of my actual request body > for the Content-Type request header, right? I fear that I may have lost the thread of your comment... you cannot use Content-Type to send anything _but_ the content type of your request body. > > You won't get caught be firewalls and proxy servers that think they know > > better about what methods are legitimate (which you most assuredly will > > if you create a new method - ask the WebDav implementors), and you won't > > have changed the semantics of the method at all. > > I am one of these WebDAV implementors, thanks. I haven't had any issues > with issues for a long time. Then you've been living on a nicer part of the net than I do. I run a server that provides subversion over webdav methods, and it's a routine item to tell people to use ssl to access it so that their proxy won't reject the webdav methods.Received on Monday, 21 February 2005 20:32:26 GMT
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