- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:02:46 -0800
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: CalDAV DevList <ietf-caldav@osafoundation.org>
This feature of HTTP is already defined as POST + media-type ==> 201 + location There is no need for any new methods, header fields, or any of the other assorted proposals to add more crap to HTTP. The client knows what it is doing and can tell from the server's response whether or not it succeeded. The media type is more than sufficient to distinguish this action from any other type of misdirected POST, and thus there is no need to check ahead of time whether or not the feature is supported. This has been the original definition of POST going back to 1992. It is based on NNTP's post command and has the property of adding resources to a collection under a name chosen by the receiving server. Cheers, Roy T. Fielding <http://roy.gbiv.com/> Chief Scientist, Day Software <http://www.day.com/>
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