- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 16:16:36 -0400
- To: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Cc: 'http-wg' <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>, "'ipp@pwg.org'" <ipp@pwg.org>
Yaron Goland wrote: > > Rob clarified in personal e-mail that he meant the latest rev of the HTTP > draft. > > One of the innovations of HTTP in respect to many other protocols is that > you do not need to modify the HTTP standard in order to add new methods for > use with HTTP. Rather HTTP defines exactly how one is to act if one receives > an unknown method. Thus one can safely add new methods and know that at the > worst one will simply receive a method unknown error from servers/firewalls > and be tunneled by proxies. How can one "know that at the worst one will ... be tunneled by proxies"? I can't find anything in the HTTP/1.1 spec. that instructs proxies to tunnel unknown methods. I think at worst the request will be rejected. Dave Kristol
Received on Wednesday, 3 June 1998 13:20:59 UTC