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

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:34:48 -0800
Message-Id: <c844ba079656823c4c2389f174aaa6af@gbiv.com>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, CalDAV DevList <ietf-caldav@osafoundation.org>, WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> 

On Feb 21, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> I believe Julian wants to "create resource" with an arbitrary content
>> type - _without_ the content type having any effect on the action that
>> is taken to create the resource.
>
> Correct.

General-purpose HTTP servers will not allow that for security
reasons.  They use the media type internally as an extensibility
mechanism.

....Roy
Received on Tuesday, 22 February 2005 00:39:59 GMT

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