- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:47:18 +1100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
I think we can leave it out for now; it's pretty obvious to someone looking at the * form, and I imagine we're going to do at least one more sweep through the specs for such considerations before we're done.
Thanks,
On 22/10/2010, at 11:46 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 22.10.2010 00:29, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> OK, marking for incorporation into -12.
>
> So, in P1 we have:
>
> -- snip --
> The asterisk "*" ("asterisk form") means that the request does not apply to a particular resource, but to the server itself, and is only allowed when the method used does not necessarily apply to a resource. One example would be
>
> OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1
> -- snip --
>
>
> This would become:
> -- snip --
> The asterisk "*" ("asterisk form") means that the request does not apply to a particular resource, but to the server itself. This is only allowed for the OPTIONS method. Thus, the only valid example is
>
> OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1
> -- snip --
>
> In P2, we *could* add it to the Considerations for new Methods. Do we need to?
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
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