Re: Idempotent partial updates from Martin Thomson on 2012-03-01 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2012)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:29:32 -0800
To: Mike Kelly <mikekelly321@gmail.com>
Cc: Henrik Nordström <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnUaGQsZVzawHoSbJW+PXB-uvTQZ8Xn=RF-z43zX1gWZgg@mail.gmail.com>

2012/2/29 Mike Kelly <mikekelly321@gmail.com>:
> Upgrading PUT so it is less specific about replacement wouldn't result
> in this breakage.

PUTv2...which is what PATCH does.

> Clients don't make requests to servers arbitrarily,
> they make them according to whatever application they are fulfilling.

That's coupling.  c.f. statements about that being bad.

Received on Thursday, 1 March 2012 00:30:00 UTC