- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:50:20 +0100
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: John Kemp <john@jkemp.net>, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, 'Stefan Eissing' <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, 'HTTP Working Group' <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote: > > I think some change is needed, because the text currently places unclear > conformance requirements on servers and clients. > > Revised proposal; > > In p2 10.1, change > '''This field cannot prevent a client from trying other methods. > However, the indications given by the Allow header field value SHOULD be > followed. The actual set of allowed methods is defined by the origin > server at the time of each request.''' > to > '''The advertised set of allowed methods may not necessarily include all > (or any) methods that the server would actually allow in a presented > request.''' > > (keeping in mind that the start of the Allow's header definition is: > '''The Allow entity-header field lists the set of methods supported by > the resource identified by the Request-URI. The purpose of this field is > strictly to inform the recipient of valid methods associated with the > resource.''' > ) +1 BR, Julian
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