Re: Use case for cross-site DELETE, PUT, ...?

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:38 +0100, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org> wrote:
> The current specification is phrased in terms of GET (safe) vs
> non-GET (meaning unsafe, actually not entirely accurate given the
> existence of HEADERS) requests.
>
> That means that there is an assumption here that HTTP methods such
> as DELETE and PUT might be used cross-site.
>
> If that assumption is kept, we should document corresponding use
> cases, and have an explicit requirement.

You could have an editing tool on editing.example.org that you use to edit  
your website on foo.invalid. The editing tool uses a simple interface  
implemented by your server (APP, perhaps?) to add, remove, edit, etc.  
resources.

In general it is about making the use cases HTTP has work in a cross-site  
fashion.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:30:08 UTC