Re: Follow-up about PUT and DELETE in form methods

On 13/12/2011, at 3:04 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Different clients have different expectations on the response payload they get for a successful DELETE, though. Most non-HTML clients do not care about any additional information, so sending more than a status message is a waste of bits.

Why is the client advertising that it "Accept: text\html" if it doesn't want it? Seems like it is requesting a waste of bits.

if it wants a simple status message it should "Accept: text\plain" or some such other.

thanks,
cam

Received on Tuesday, 13 December 2011 15:14:12 UTC