- From: Mike Kelly <mikekelly321@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:28:49 +0000
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote: > On Feb 28, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: > >> I'm not sure we are communicating. >> >> In the web-as-deployed, partial updates often use the PUT method. > > In the Web as defined, standardized, and deployed, those partial > updates using the PUT method are not interoperable with standard > HTTP/1.x servers. Please could you be more specific > That has been known since the idea was first > brought up and has not changed since then. We could not make > non-compatible changes to an existing method in 1996, nor 1999, > nor can we do so now in 2012. The inference here being there is infrastructure which relies on PUT requests being non-partial _across the whole of the web_? Do you have some examples? > There is no such thing as partial updates using PUT. Maybe in a theoretical sense, but there are clients and servers interacting this way on the web right now. Everything seems to be going OK despite this. Cheers, Mike
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