- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:57:46 +1100
- To: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- Cc: "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Now <http://www3.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/105>. I can see (c), but I'm not sure I understand (a), or agree with (b), because I'm not sure it's a good idea to specify that Allow applies to individual representations... Cheers, On 27/02/2008, at 12:04 PM, Brian Smith wrote: > > Currently, "Allow" is defined as an entity-header, not a respones- > header. Its definition says "The Allow entity-header field lists the > set of methods supported by the resource identified by the Request- > URI." That means that (a) "Allow" never applies to the response > entity, and (b) "Allow" applies to all variants at the Request-URI > (not to any specific representation), (c) it doesn't make sense in a > request header. Note the last sentence of the definition of response > header in part 2, section 6: "These header fields give information > about the server and about further access to the resource identified > by the Request-URI." > > PROPOSAL: Make "Allow" a response-header. remove the reference from > Part 3, Section 4.1 and add it to the BNF for response-header in > Part 2, Section 6. > > - Brian > > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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