- From: by way of Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <francis@netscape.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 04:35:58 -0400
- To: ietf-http-ext@w3.org
Excuse me if this has already been pointed out, but there is at least one Web server (Apache) which, at least sometimes, implements CGI in such a way that *all* HTTP methods get passed to the CGI script, even if the server doesn't know them. Many CGI scripts will probably just ignore the REQUEST_METHOD variable, meaning that M-GET, or M-PUT, or J-RANDOM-METHOD, will be treated just like GET. I don't think this is even a violation of RFC-2068, which reads: > Servers SHOULD return the status code 405 (Method Not > Allowed) if the method is known by the server but not > allowed for the requested resource, and 501 (Not > Implemented) if the method is unrecognized or not > implemented by the server. Note that I'm not on the list or anything; I thought of this when we were considering using Mandatory in WebDAV, and thought I'd pass it along. -- /====================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|S/MIME supported | |Software Retrophrenologist|=========================================| |Netscape Comm. Corp. | Cogito ergo Spud. (I think, therefore | |francis@netscape.com | I yam.) | \====================================================================/ New area code for work number: 650
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