Re: Proposal: Is OPTIONS Safe? [#171]

No objections, and I note that 2616 already says in 9.1.2:

"Also, the methods OPTIONS and TRACE SHOULD NOT have side effects, and  
so are inherently idempotent."

Julian, please go ahead.



On 05/06/2009, at 10:31 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> Proposal:
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> Confirm both OPTIONS and TRACE as safe methods. Any objections?
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> On 04/06/2009, at 3:48 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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>> No real opinion. I suppose it is safe, in the sense that it doesn't  
>> change the state of the resource. Whether it should be  
>> automatically redirected isn't a terribly interesting question  
>> AFAICT, so I think it is...
>>
>> http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/171
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>> On 03/06/2009, at 3:28 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
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>>> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>>> Yes, that's what I'm suggesting.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> We already state that in Part 2, Section 10.1, but that is only  
>>> the IANA registration (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-06.html#rfc.section.10.1 
>>> >)...
>>>
>>> So yes, the method description should state that as well.
>>>
>>> What about TRACE then (which is the 4th candidate)?
>>>
>>> BR, Julian
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