- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:48:03 +0200
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2011-09-01 03:33, Mark Nottingham wrote: > > On 01/09/2011, at 11:31 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > >> On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> >>> Is this going to confuse new readers? >> >> New readers don't know what retrieval means? > > Considering all of the issues we've had with other redirects and methods, I'm wary of making it more abstract... > > >>> Can we clarify with something like >>> >>> >>> """ >>> ...perform a retrieval request (i.e., a GET, unless the original method was HEAD)... >>> """ >> >> The problem is that the redirect might be to any URI, >> and thus the next request might not be HTTP. > > > Ah. How about > > "... perform a retrieval request (in HTTP, a GET, unless the original method was HEAD)..." > ... OK, let's do that: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1429>, although it would have been nice not to have to be that specific... Best regards, Julian
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