Re: Patch options -- summary of recent conversations

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>>>> If the server advertises its support for this Content-Type somewhere,  
>>>> I could imagine this being sufficiently reliable.  I'm still a little  
>>>> worried that the server might respond successfully to a POST request  
>>>> without treating it as the client desires -- e.g. adding the request  
>>>> entity to an Atom collection, submitting it to a HTTP "drop-box",  
>>>> treating it as an alternative body for the resource, or one of the  
>>>> many things POST might already be used for out there.
>>> Quite a few resources out there will respond to PATCH by doing those
>>> things anyway.  I've seen quite a few CGI scripts and libraries which
>>> will respond to all requests as though they are POST, unless they are
>>> GET/HEAD.
>>>
>>> So you always have to know a bit about which resource you're PATCHing
>>> or POSTing.
>> But at least OPTIONS/Allow will tell us whether the server has any idea 
>> what PATCH is, right?
> 
> If you're lucky.  If you're not lucky, the server will treat OPTIONS
> like GET or POST, or something else.

In which case it won't return "Allow: PATCH", right?

 > ...

Best regards, Julian