- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:22:54 -0700
- To: "'Henrik Nordstrom'" <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, "'James M Snell'" <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Cc: <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "'Lisa Dusseault'" <lisa@osafoundation.org>
# Why is Accept-Patch required. Or what is it that makes Accept unsuitable here? Accept is currently a request header and not a response header. What's acceptable depends on the method as well as the URI. For example (request) OPTIONS /example/buddies.xml HTTP/1.1 Host: www.example.com (response) Allow: GET, PUT, POST, PATCH, OPTIONS Accept-PATCH: application/diff, application/diff+xml Accept-PUT: application/xml Accept-POST: application/vcard Accept-POST might be useful for forms submission URIs, to determine whether multipart/form-data, URL encoded, or other submission formats might be acceptable.
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