Re: text of description of "POST"

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:58:48PM -0700, Larry Masinter wrote:
> In web forms I've seen for web submitted mail, Wikis, Blogs,
> etc., the Request URI is not the URI of the resource, and the
> entity enclosed is form-data, not a new subordinate entity.

"subordinate" doesn't imply "new subordinate".  Some subordinates
will receive their own identities, perhaps communicated via a 201
response.  Others will be processed and discarded.  But in both
cases, the term "subordinate" is applicable.

MB
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