- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:28:31 +0200
- To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- CC: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On tis, 2008-07-29 at 16:20 -0400, Mark Baker wrote: > >> In that case, I'm for Julian's proposal to simply remove "PUT or POST" >> in the last paragraph. > > +1 on the first of those, where the server is still given persmission to > ignore Content-Location in requests, but not on the second where this > was removed. > > In the definition of PUT there is the following restriction which > otherwise relates to Content-Location: > > "The recipient of the entity MUST NOT ignore any Content-* (e.g. > Content-Range) headers that it does not understand or implement > and MUST return a 501 (Not Implemented) response in such cases." > ... That's a good one, isn't it? I read it as: - find all content-* headers - for those understood, either ignore them or process them - if some are not understood, reject the request Which means: it's ok to ignore Content-Location, if you "know" it. BR, Julian
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