- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:34:15 +0200
- To: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
- CC: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Cyrus Daboo wrote: > ... >> OK, let me rephrase that: I don't want a default status, but a default >> preference; and that should be not to return the whole entity. > > +1 The client should be the one to decide whether the new entity is > returned or not, and we need an appropriate header for the client to > indicate that decision to the server. We should also extend PUT/POST to > support that new header too so that the new entity after a PUT/POST > could be returned. +1 Correct. This could be the missing piece for <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-http-etag-on-write-latest.html>, allowing the client to tell the server that it wants the new entity to be sent back if it's not identical to what was PUT. Best regards, Julian
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