- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 18:55:59 -0700
- To: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
More ruminations. Paul Leach writes: > For POST, the situation is more complex, since it says that the entity > returned is > "an entity describing or containing the result of the action" > If there were a way to determine that it contained the result of the > action, What does that mean? By definition what is returned as the result of an action is the result of the action. and some guarantee that a subsequent GET (of the URI specified > by the Location header in the response) would fetch this entity, That is what the Location header is defined to do. The alpha 1.1 spec says: "For 2xx responses, the location should be the URL needed to retrieve that same resource again ...". This presumably means, e.g., by using GET. then > your argument would hold. However, since neither of the predicates are > true, it seems that the conclusion doesn't follow. > As far as I can see, both are true. --Shel
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