Re: Call for Adoption: SEARCH method

Am 19.11.2020 um 04:39 schrieb James M Snell:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:18 Philippe Mougin <pmougin@acm.org
> <mailto: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
>     <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.
> ...

FWIW, I disagree with that. Ignore the method name for a moment, and
what's left is a retrieval operation similar to GET which additionally
takes the request payload into account.

> ...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 19 November 2020 04:46:30 UTC