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Re: Draft for Resumable Uploads

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 07:45:36 +0200
Message-ID: <9b3236fc-284f-29f5-6405-850dcc2e6fed@gmx.de>
To: Eric J Bowman <mellowmutt@zoho.com>
Cc: Austin William Wright <aaa@bzfx.net>, Guoye Zhang <guoye_zhang@apple.com>, ietf-http-wg <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Am 12.04.2022 um 02:39 schrieb Eric J Bowman:
>  >
>  >>
>  >> A resource has to exist first, before it can support PATCH.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Says who?
>  >
>
> Common sense? Clearly-defined method semantics is part-and-parcel of a
> uniform interface. If we're going to muddy the waters by allowing
> partial PUT (or PUT no content to DELETE), and PATCH to create a primary
> resource (not sayin' PATCH can't result in a /previous-version resource
> being minted), then I guess HTML was right all along to only bother
> defining GET and POST in forms.
 > ...

Well. You are in disagreement with the spec.

The issue here being that "existence" of a resource is somewhat hard to
define.

Best regards, Julian
Received on Tuesday, 12 April 2022 05:46:01 UTC

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