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

• From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:43:59 +0100
• To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, public-appformats@w3.org
• Message-ID: <20080116234359.GJ363@iCoaster.does-not-exist.org>

On 2008-01-17 00:37:30 +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> Sorry, I should have phrased my question more clearly.  What's the
> use case for cross-site DELETE, PUT etc using XMLHttpRequest, i.e.,
> in the circumstances that we're looking at?

On 2008-01-17 00:33:06 +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

>> 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.


(That actually answered my question. Ignore the restatement.)

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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>

Received on Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:44:05 UTC