- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:20:11 +0200
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: 'HTTP Working Group' <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote: > On 02/06/2008, at 5:15 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: >> Both are plausible answers. >> >> It seems that the only thing we can require a server to do is to be >> robust. So either reject the request or ignore the request body. >> >> Of course that makes it tricky to actually *use* a request body in new >> protocols. WebDAV DeltaV solves this by allowing the client to find >> out whether the server understood the request body (see, for instance, >> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3253.html#rfc.section.5.5>). >> >> So if we allow both behaviors (and I think we need to), it's really >> not clear whether we need to state anything here. And, if we do, don't >> we need to repeat this for any method where currently the request body >> is unspecified (GET/HEAD/DELETE...)? > > I think that's what we did with the resolution of #19. > > If so, we can close this by just deleting the sentence. Agreed? > ... Totally, and it happens to be just what Roy suggested back when the issue was raised. Change applied with <http://www3.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/280>. BR, Julian
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