Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-11 early Httpdir review

Am 22.06.2025 um 06:57 schrieb Mark Nottingham:
> Responding to a couple of points as an individual (and note that I'm travelling and so can't send a complete, considered response) --
> 
>> On 21 Jun 2025, at 12:08 am, Roy Fielding via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
>>
>> However, the technology being described fails to meet the
>> basic architectural requirements for the Web and HTTP.
>> "All important resources are identified by a URI" is the
>> primary design principle of the Web. The entire system depends
>> on it for linkability and scale.
> 
> "Important" is carrying a lot of weight in that sentence. QUERY is intended to address cases where POST and GET-with-body are being used, so on the face of it this property isn't at risk as compared to current usage. If GETable resources suddenly switched to using QUERY I would be concerned, but there isn't an immediately apparent reason for that to start happening.
> ...

True. We define a way for the resource responding to QUERY to indicate a 
substitute resource that can be used with GET 
(https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-11.html#location), 
so we are actually *improving* the situation as compared to POST or 
GET-with-body.

But yes, the introduction should mention that.

In any case, thanks for the thorough review review. I'll respond to 
other points next week (and try to transform them to Github issues).

Best regards, Julian

Received on Sunday, 22 June 2025 20:00:08 UTC