Re: [Fwd: draft-reschke-http-addmember-00]

On Feb 15, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> recently different communities (caldav/groupdav, atompup (protocol
> part)) have been discussing how to use HTTP to author new resources 
> when
> the URL namespace is completely server-controlled, thus PUT just 
> doesn't
> fit well.
>
> A simple approach would be to define a new HTTP method which is 
> *almost*
> like PUT, except that the server chooses the URL to create (and returns
> it in the Location header).
>
> I've submitted a first draft as "draft-reschke-http-addmember-00". Note
> that it also contains an appendix covering possible alternative 
> approaches.

Julian, POST to a collection resource is already defined as
adding a member resource.  That was its very first definition
(hence, named after NNTP's post) and remains applicable today.


Cheers,

Roy T. Fielding                            <http://roy.gbiv.com/>
Chief Scientist, Day Software              <http://www.day.com/>