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Re: PUT and DELETE methods in form@method

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:25:33 +0200
Message-ID: <4D933D5D.8000206@gmx.de>
To: Cameron Heavon-Jones <cmhjones@gmail.com>
CC: "T.J. Crowder" <tj@crowdersoftware.com>, Dominik Tomaszuk <ddooss@wp.pl>, public-html-comments@w3.org 
On 30.03.2011 16:02, Cameron Heavon-Jones wrote:
> Existing servers don't do this for PUT or DELETE but then existing servers don't currently support these methods from forms anyway.

What exactly does it *mean* to support these methods "for forms"?

> Servers don't need special cases for requests from forms, they need special cases based on what content type the agent says it can handle.

I'm not convinced that the Accept: header would be reliable here, but it 
could be worth a try.

Best regards, Julian
Received on Wednesday, 30 March 2011 14:26:09 GMT

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