- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:11:33 +0100
- To: Robert Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Henrik Nordström <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Julian Reschke wrote: > Hm. > > Sending an incomplete Allow header will affect clients that use it. > WebDAV clients certainly use it to check for features, and I wouldn't be > surprised if some AtomPub clients did as well (to check for PUT). > > So it seems it *is* harmful not to send the header, or just to send an > incomplete list. > > From a client's p.o.v., given the choice between an incorrect list and > no list at all, I'd prefer the latter, though. ...what I said really applies to successful OPTIONS requests, not Allow in 405 response though... BR, Julian
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