Re: SCIM thought experiment of draft-snell-search-method-00

Hi Phil,

Reading that document:

"""
In contrast, using HTTP POST has the disadvantage of overloading POST to perform another function other than creating new SCIM resources.
"""

POST's semantics aren't "create a resource" — they're "process this data" with the possible side effect of creating a resource.

POST can easily dispatch on request characteristics (e.g,. request body media type) to determine what the appropriate action is; there is no requirement that POST map to only one set of semantics per URL.

Did you consider using a different request media type?

Regards,


> On 21 Jul 2015, at 10:42 pm, Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Link as requested by @mnot for the SCIM thought experiment on the user of the HTTP Search draft.
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hunt-scim-search-00
> 
> Phil
> 
> @independentid
> www.independentid.com
> phil.hunt@oracle.com
> 

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Received on Wednesday, 5 August 2015 23:05:37 UTC