- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:12:34 +0000
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, httpbis mailing list <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <BB32FA8E-855D-4155-9715-D7597C5A8438@gbiv.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" w rites: >The goal seems to be to ask for the server's result of a PUT or POST >to be returned as part of the same action instead of requiring the >client to make an additional GET request. And standardizing a header to kindly request but not demand this, would help how ? Is the hope that all browsers will send this by default ? Or is this intended only for obscure corner cases, were an private X-FOO header or URI variable would be a better and more narrowly tailored solution anyway ? I'm sorry if this sounds cranky, but I don't believe that "as many options as possible" is the right mental frame for writing standards, Occams razor is much better: If this is already possible through existing means, why do we need it as a separate standard ? Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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