- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 11:11:03 -0700
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
In 5.1.1, it says: "Servers SHOULD return the status code ... 501 (Not Implemented) if the method is unrecognized or not implemented by the server." At least this isn't "MUST", but I don't even see the SHOULD as valid for proxies passing methods they don't recognize. I'm not suggesting that proxies be required to forward requests they don't recognize, merely that they be _allowed_ to without violating any recommendations of the spec. I haven't gotten the sense that there is a consensus opinion about how user-extensible HTTP should be on request-method, but it would be good to leave it open until there is such a consensus. This could be fixed simply by using the words "origin servers" instead of "servers" in this section. Shel Kaphan sjk@amazon.com
Received on Monday, 3 June 1996 11:11:30 UTC