- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:44:25 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: <public-appformats@w3.org>
On Jan 5, 2008, at 13:42, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Henri Sivonen wrote: >> Hixie also said that having mod_dav loaded still makes Apache not >> expose OPTIONS to other modules. > > But then you would have to use mod_headers to set the headers anyway > in > a real world setup, since otherwise the calling script would not learn > whether the request succeeded due to lack of a response header that'd > allow reading the response; so this does not limit you in any way. > Also > note that doing this you cannot use a CGI script to handle DELETE, > PUT, > etc. It seems reasonable to assume that if a script can handle DELETE, PUT, etc., it can also handle OPTIONS. The big deal really is POST pre-flight. I don't like the conclusion of having to be GETsful in order to work with real-world software, but I found it really hard to argue against the constraints Hixie had for arriving at that conclusion. It seems to me that in order to steer away from the GETsfulness in POST pre-flight, the WG needs to either: * Research OPTIONS support more in the hope of discovering that it isn't as bad as so far thought. OR * Adjust requirements so that the current findings about OPTIONS support are considered to satisfy the requirements. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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