Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Proposed HTTP SEARCH method update - QUERY is to GET what PATCH is to PUT

On 2015-04-28 22:52, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>> On Apr 28, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 2015-04-28 18:29, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>>> ...
>>> That is scoping by the message body, not by the method semantics.  The difference is
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> that the request target contains essential bits for routing a request within (or behind)
>>> the origin server, so if a special route is applied to, for example, a path within the
>>> URI, then we want the method semantics to be limited to the scope of that path.
>>> If the scope is not limited by the method, then implementation gets very messy.
>>> [POST might have remained limited in that way as well, but the introduction of forms
>>> made its original semantics irrelevant, so there wasn't much point in scoping them.]
>>
>> I agree with the explanation, but exactly how is this different from how a GET on a search engine works?
>
> Because a GET has all of the information necessary to see the scope
> within the request target.
>
> ....Roy

Hm, no.

Example: <https://www.google.de/search?q=site:ietf.org+roy>

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 29 April 2015 06:03:26 UTC