- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:41:06 +0100
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
- CC: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2013-02-01 17:14, Karl Dubost wrote: > > Le 1 févr. 2013 à 05:06, Poul-Henning Kamp a écrit : >> We could even decide to encode the HTTP "GET" method simply as "G", >> "POST" as "P" etc. while still leaving room in the protocol for >> somebody to implement a custom "FOOBAR" method of their own. > > Almost. The issue is POST and PUT with P. Two letters could do the job. > That said GET, POST and HEAD are massively used compared to the others, so maybe there's room to change PUT identifier as U, but that would confuse people and implementers. > > C CO CONNECT > D DE DELETE > G GE GET > H HE HEAD > O OP OPTIONS > P PO POST > P PU PUT > T TR TRACE We could also use "?" for GET and "!" for POST. Best regards, Julian
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