- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:47:26 PDT
- To: fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU
- Cc: paulle@microsoft.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Roy said (about Range on PUT): > I think you are missing something. Range is a request header that > applies to the entity returned as the result of the request. I could > understand sending Content-Range in a PUT request (which would have > the effect of putting just a range of an entity), though I wouldn't > suggest it for 1.1. Yes. Maybe this (well, just the description of "Range is a request header that applies to the entity returned as the result of the request") just belongs in the description of the Range header. I actually can now see a use for Range with POST: You do a query using POST, it returns megabytes, and you want to retry the query; the results were returned with a strong entity ID, so this actually makes sense. Thanks, Roy, for saying this clearly. - Larry
Received on Saturday, 1 June 1996 11:52:54 UTC