[Bug 10671] consider removing support for PUT and DELETE as form methods

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10671

Paolo Perrotta <paolo.nusco.perrotta@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Paolo Perrotta <paolo.nusco.perrotta@gmail.com> 2011-04-09 02:10:48 UTC ---
> To paraphrase the fundamental requirement for supporting these methods on
> forms:
>  so that a real human is able to interact natively with a Restful system using
> plain html, no ajax or other workarounds.

Speaking as a developer, I think this is reason enough to have PUT/DELETE in
forms. This feature would be useful in documenting, debugging, prototyping,
manual testing and automated testing. The ramifications for the domain of web
services could range quite far. Self-documentation in particular is perceived
as a weak spot of REST services when compared with SOAP services.

I also see another advantage of PUT/DELETE in forms: they let the browser know
that you're doing something idempotent. When you issue a POST through a form
and then hit the "back" button (or you hit "refresh" before the response has
come through), the browser has no choice but to show you a scary confirmation
dialog, that regularly perplexes non-technical users. With PUT/DELETE, browsers
could choose to just re-submit, or at least show you a dialog that's more
informative. Ajax wouldn't help there, because it happens behind the browser's
back.

Just my 2 cents.

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Received on Saturday, 9 April 2011 02:10:53 UTC