- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:59:00 +0100
- To: "Bertrand Le Roy" <Bertrand.Le.Roy@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:08:32 +0100, Bertrand Le Roy <Bertrand.Le.Roy@microsoft.com> wrote: > I understand that but it brings the question of how you distinguish a > plain GET request to the resource and one that's being made just for > authorization purposes? Is it using "method-check" and is that header > only present in that case? Yes, that is correct. > Is there a precedent of not sending the actual contents of a resource > (but rather meta-data about it) based on the presence of a header? I don't know. > One other design that has been suggested in the OpenAjax discussion by > Manos Batsis from Abiss was to send the request using HEAD and revert to > GET only if the HEAD failed. I already explained why I thought this would be a bad idea in this e-mail: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-appformats/2008Jan/0035.html -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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