- From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:31:08 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Mike Kelly <mikekelly321@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
I'm not sure we are communicating. In the web-as-deployed, partial updates often use the PUT method. Intermediaries know these are idempotent and can do interesting things to these interactions. In the web-as-soon-specified, partial updates are now moving to PATCH. Intermediaries don't know anything and cannot do anything that would rely on idempotence. Is that a problem? A big enough problem that would move us to do something about the point the specs now seem to be converging towards? I don't know. I just want to make sure we communicate about this change. Grüße, Carsten
Received on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:32:47 UTC