Re: PROPFIND vs "simple methods", was: [CORS] HTTP error codes in preflight response from Anne van Kesteren on 2010-09-22 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2010)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:16:18 +0200
To: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Cc: "Webapps WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.vjf7tgei64w2qv@anne-van-kesterens-macbook-pro.local>

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:19:08 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:
> For PROPFIND (and other methods defined to be "safe"): it really doesn't  
> make sense to do a preflight OPTIONS for PROPFIND. Both are defined to  
> be safe. Both could have broken server implementations.

We don't want to keep updating the "safe" list. So they're all "unsafe".  
Or maybe not "unsafe", just not compatible with HTML forms.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/

Received on Wednesday, 22 September 2010 19:17:28 UTC