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Re: draft-holtman-http-safe-00.txt

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:01:24 -0400
Message-Id: <199610101801.OAA02570@nathaniel.ebt>
To: MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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>>The I18N draft does not make POST use mandatory at all. A Safe header
>>could equally well be used to indicate that a GET-with-body result
>>can be cached/reused.
>
>	Yes, but as things *presently* stand in existing IETF RFCs
>and IDs, to use ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" the FORM will specify
>METHOD=POST. 

The "will" here implies a requirement, which I have not seen. There are
strong recommendations, yes, but no requirements.
Received on Thursday, 10 October 1996 11:07:44 UTC

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