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- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:39:22 -0800
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http://ietf.cse.ucsc.edu:8080/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44 ------- Additional Comments From lisa@osafoundation.org 2005-11-25 08:39 ------- This has been a particularly interesting issue. Some more background: - Jeff Mogul concluded that OPTIONS is "next to useless" as currently specified, and pointed me towards a proposal for fixing that: http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/draft-ietf-http-options-02.txt - As I recall, in interop tests we found that some clients do use OPTIONS *. - It is possible to implement OPTIONS * correctly with Java servlets -- Xythos WFS did so eventually. - A fair amount of discussion on the WebDAV list was on or around Nov 24 2003. - Mark Nottingham took an interesting look at this: http://www.mnot.net/blog/2005/04/03/options - And finally, as Hugh Sloan pointed out on the HTTP mailing list April 26 2004, "there have been some sub-Sahara tribes known to use OPTIONS to induce flatulence prior to the mating ritual" ;) That day also included a broader discussion of use of OPTIONS by a number of HTTP extensions. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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