- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:24:00 +0200
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
The editors spent some time discussing http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/79 with regard to the requirement in RFC 2616, section.9.6, the description of PUT: "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." The purpose of this requirement was to enable some future use of Content-Range for the purpose of partial updates. No server that I am aware of supports that requirement. Partial updates should be accomplished using a new method (PATCH) rather than a retroactive requirement on deployed services that nobody implemented. My proposal is to remove that sentence from the spec and note in the changes section that the requirement was removed in favor of deploying PATCH. ....Roy
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