- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:21:04 +0200
- To: Graham Klyne <graham.klyne@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
- CC: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, W3C TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
Graham Klyne wrote: > Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >> In general POSTs to arbitrary things. The case of POST to a list >> page creating a new page (from the posted content) and creating a >> entry in the list linking to the new content (like net news) I have >> not really seen used. > > Isn't this exactly what AtomPub (and hence a system like Google Data) does? It is. > It's certainly something that I'm planning to use in a data curation > project I'm > working on. > > I raise this as I'm mildly concerned by a possible implication that this > isn't > really a good design, and that I'm oblivious to a better way to achieve > this goal. > ... No, using POST to add to a collection is the right thing to do. An alternative is PUT, in case you want to allow the client to specify the name of the new sub resource. BR, Julian
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