Re: i24: Requiring Allow in 405 responses

John Kemp wrote:
> Why is this additional text necessary? RFC 2616 says that
> 
> "The purpose of this field is strictly to inform the recipient of valid 
> methods associated with the resource."
> 
> There is no requirement, stated or even seemingly implicit, that a 
> server include ALL valid methods in its response. Only the implied 
> requirement that a server does not include "disallowed" methods in the 
> response.
> ...

Sorry????

"The Allow entity-header field lists the set of methods supported by the 
resource identified by the Request-URI."

I would say that "*the* set of methods" is clear enough; it doesn't 
allow a subset.

> ...

BR, Julian

Received on Monday, 3 March 2008 15:57:04 UTC