- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:04:24 +1100
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/230> I've incorporated the proposal below as a starting point: --->8--- When it is necessary to express new semantics for a HTTP request that aren't specific to a single application or media type, and currently defined methods are inadequate, it may be appropriate to register a new method [ref]. New methods SHOULD be potentially applicable to any resource. I.e., they should not be specific to any particular media type, "type" of resource, or application. New methods MUST NOT prohibit a message-body on either the request or the response message; however they MAY specify that only a zero-length body is allowed. New methods MUST define whether they are safe [ref] and whether they are idempotent [ref]. They MUST also state whether they can be cached [ref to p6]; in particular what conditions a cache may store the response, and under what conditions such a stored response may be used to satisfy a subsequent request. New methods SHOULD explain how conditional request headers [ref] affect the response (if there is any effect). HTTP methods SHOULD be registered in a document that isn't specific to an application or other use of HTTP, so that it's clear that they are not specific to that application or extension. ---8<--- I expect we'll find more here, but wanted to get something in. Feedback appreciated, as always. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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