Re: i24: Requiring Allow in 405 responses

On Mar 11, 2008, at 1:05 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> My understanding is that a proposal along these lines* is  
>> acceptable, with one exception; Julian believes that if we do  
>> this, we should also relax the client-side requirement.
>
> Yes.
>
>> One way to do that would be to change "SHOULD"->"should" (i.e.,  
>> make it advisory text, instead of a requirement).
>> Thoughts?
>> ...
>
> I don't think that lowercasing the requirement is sufficient; it's  
> still a requirement. My proposal is to get rid of it, so to drop:
>
> "However, the indications given by the Allow header field value  
> SHOULD be followed."
>
> completely.

+1

....Roy

Received on Tuesday, 11 March 2008 17:54:28 UTC