- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 19:35:16 -0800
- To: Dave Long <dave@navisoft.com>
- Cc: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Dave Long writes: > > >>semantically equivalent to a CREATE. For now I'm using a "magic" > > > >Why isn't put of a non-existent object good enough? > > It *is* good enough. > > I was referring to a problem which arose in the context of > version-control, where one might wish a PUT request to fail > if there was an existing (possibly very recently created) > object. > > That problem is probably outside the scope of this working-group; > perhaps I shouldn't have piggy-backed it upon my reply to a > different issue. > > -Dave It seems to me to be very much in the domain of this working group, and has been discussed before, in connection with conditional requests of all sorts. There was a discussion about "unless-modified-since" (or "if-valid") headers some time back, to make the action of PUT conditional on the server's version still being the same as the most recent one the PUTter had received. I don't think this has been fully worked out yet. --Shel
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