- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:26:13 +0200
- To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
James M Snell wrote: > FYI... Updated based on recent discussions. > > - James > > -------- Original Message -------- > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > > > Title : PATCH Method for HTTP > Author(s) : J. Snell, L. Dusseault > Filename : draft-dusseault-http-patch-09.txt > Pages : 15 > Date : 2007-8-22 > > Several applications extending HTTP require a feature to do partial > resource modification. Existing HTTP functionality only allows a > complete replacement of a document. This proposal adds a new HTTP > method, PATCH, to modify an existing HTTP resource. > > A URL for this Internet-Draft is: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-dusseault-http-patch-09.txt > > [snip] Hi James, a few comments: - I think that using warn codes to provide feedback may be problematic; in particular the idea to encode data into the message, which in RFC2616 is plain text. I think a new response header would be better. - Finally: "Prefer" IMHO should go separate; in particular there are unresolved questions such as how are new Prefer codes registered. IANA? Best regards, Julian
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