RE: Reclassification of Allow as a response header [i105]

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Ah -- from Allow's definition:
> 
> > The Allow header field MAY be provided with a PUT request 
> > to recommend the methods to be supported by the new or
> > modified resource. The server is not required to support
> > these methods and SHOULD include an Allow header in the
> > response giving the actual supported methods.
> Question: is this implemented anywhere? WebDAV folks?

Even if Allow is used in a request, it isn't an entity header, because
it doesn't describe an entity. It would be both a request-header and a
response-header.

- Brian

Received on Thursday, 28 February 2008 13:12:01 UTC