Re: PATCH Draft from James M Snell on 2007-06-26 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2007)

From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:25:09 -0700
To: Lisa Dusseault <ldusseault@commerce.net>
CC: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <46805CE5.70604@gmail.com>

Alternatively, it would be interesting to allow the server to return
it's own diff of the changes it actually applied.

- James

Lisa Dusseault wrote:
> [snip]
> That should be fine.  I wonder if it's worth the extra variation to
> allow the server to carry the entire modified entry.  In some cases that
> would remove the whole point of supporting PATCH (allowing authoring of
> large files without constant uploading and downloading of entire file)
> so returning the body at least has to be optional.
> 
> [snip]

Received on Tuesday, 26 June 2007 00:25:15 UTC