- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:57:47 +0200
- To: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Lisa Dusseault wrote: > > I don't have any principled objections to saying that PATCH formats MUST > be applicable to empty files and the server SHOULD NOT fail the PATCH > request simply because the Request-URI was previously unmapped. > > The only situation I object to is if different delta formats work > differently, so that some of them may be applied to unmapped URIs and > some may not -- that seemed too complicated when we could so easily > treat them all the same way. > > What do others think -- should PATCH always be able to work on unmapped > URIs, or never? I think that PATCH should treat unmapped URLs the same way as empty files. Whether a patch format is applicable to empty files then is a completely independant concern. Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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