- From: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:59:27 +0000
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- CC: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>, ietf-http-ext@w3.org
Jeffrey Mogul wrote: > > This would be exactly my point ... if a new method is sent to a > server which doesn't support the application which uses the new > method, so what? Brain dead client application gets what it > deserves ... a brain dead response. > > Right. But the problem remains, how is the client supposed to know > whether or not the server supports the application in question? Why doesn't OPTIONS fit the bill here? If I send OPTIONS and get back something that looks like a GET response, I can pretty much figure out that I've hit something brain dead. -- Scott Lawrence Consulting Engineer <lawrence@agranat.com> Agranat Systems, Inc. Embedded Web Technology http://www.agranat.com/
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