- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:56:40 +0100
- To: John Kemp <john@jkemp.net>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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
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