- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:50:56 +0100
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
- CC: ejw@soe.ucsc.edu, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Jim Whitehead wrote: > Julian, > > Thanks for writing this draft -- I've been thinking along similar lines > recently. > > Roy Fielding writes: > >>Julian, POST to a collection resource is already defined as >>adding a member resource. That was its very first definition >>(hence, named after NNTP's post) and remains applicable today. > > > RFC 2616 states: > "The actual function performed by the POST method is determined by the > server and is usually dependent on the Request-URI." > >>From a client perspective this makes POST unreliable, and leads to the > desire to define a new method. > > Besides, despite what RFC 2616 actually says, POST is really the protocol > tunneling and form submission method. Thanks Roy and Jim for the feedback. When I sent the announcement, I forgot to redirect feedback to a single place, which should be <ietf-http-wg@w3.org> (which I include in this reply). Best regards, Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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