Hi all, HTTPbis has amended the semantics of PUT to be unambiguous in its prevention of partial updates. I cannot understand the rationale behind this change, and I have a couple of questions for the group: - Given that 2616 was ambiguous, is it acknowledged that this represents a breaking change to any existing infrastructure that relies on PUT requests that are permitted to be partial? - How is it foreseen that this over-specification of PUT will benefit the web? i.e. what infrastructure will be able to exist once all PUT requests are unambiguously non-partial? - Is it acknowledged that this change will effectively prevent proper idempotent partial updates on the web? - In light of the recent proliferation of 'mobile clients' which operate on relatively slow and unreliable networks where partial idempotent updates would be ideal; is the loss of idempotent partial updates considered acceptable? Cheers, MikeReceived on Monday, 27 February 2012 14:19:27 UTC
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