Re: Call for Adoption: SEARCH method

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:18 Philippe Mougin <pmougin@acm.org> wrote:

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> Hello,
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> I don't support adoption because:
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> - The introduction provides an inaccurate and self contradictory
> description of GET, as detailed in this message:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2020JulSep/0198.html
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> - The name of the method appears too restrictive, as a safe and idempotent
> equivalent to POST, which is what the draft essentially defines, would be
> useful beyond search operations.
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To be clear, this is not intended as a safe, idempotent equivalent to POST.
It is intended specifically to cover search/query operations which are
often ambiguously represented as GET or POST. I'm not quite sure what a
safe idempotent equivalent to POST would even be, but this is not it.


> I would support the adoption if the introduction was amended and the draft
> was extended beyond providing a SEARCH method to something more generic,
> such as, for instance, a COMPUTE method.
>

This can be discussed later once the draft is adopted but I'd be a strong
-1 on COMPUTE as a viable method name here.


> Best,
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> Philippe Mougin
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> Le 4 nov. 2020 à 02:10, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> a écrit :
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> As discussed in the October 202 Interim, this is a Call for Adoption for
> the HTTP SEARCH method draft:
>  https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-search-method-02
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> Please indicate whether you support adoption in response to this e-mail;
> information about intent to implement (or use) it is also useful.
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> The Call for Adoption will end on 18 November 2020.
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> Cheers,
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> Mark and Tommy
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