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Re: HTTP at a glance

From: Fiona Schmidtke <fisc@informatik.uni-kiel.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:50:21 +0100
Message-ID: <4F4B7C0D.4000500@informatik.uni-kiel.de>
To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
>  Nice.
>
>  Three nitpicks though:
>   + PUT is replace or create a resource.
>   + POST is send some data to a script or service. NOT create, that is
>  one of the big mistakes web dev make today which needs fixing.
>   + all of the status codes ranges end at *99. There are HTTP status
>  flying around the web reserved by other specifications.

Thanks for your suggestions. I updated the site.
I think the big mistake with PUT/POST comes from the statement that
POST creates a new subordinate. I saw that this is left out in the
new specifications.

Regards,
Fiona
Received on Monday, 27 February 2012 12:51:08 UTC

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