Re: Restoring PUT and DELETE

Julian:

I while back, I posted a page that, I think, covers your questions:
http://amundsen.com/examples/put-delete-forms/

I think this addresses the questions you raise.

It also iincludes some "optional" stuff that others brought up at the time
of the posting.

mca
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 16:51, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2011-11-30 22:19, Yehuda Katz wrote:
>
>> Can we revisit the decision to remove the PUT and DELETE verbs from HTML5.
>>
>> The original rationale for removing it was a lack of use-cases[1], but
>> that ticket has since grown a number of use-cases. In particular, my
>> work with Rails, which involves us faking PUT and DELETE forms[2], is a
>> good example of a large number of people wanting this feature and having
>> to apply hacks to get it.
>> ...
>>
>
> The problem isn't a lack of use cases but a lack of use cases with a
> precise description about how the feature is going to work.
>
> Examples would help a lot.
>
> Questions that need to be answered are:
>
> - which type of parameter encoding for each method
>
> - which content types to support
>
> - considerations about how this works cross-origin
>
> - discussion how response codes, response payloads etc drive what the
> browser is going to do (think 204 on DELETE, 201 on PUT, etc etc)
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
>