- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:17:22 +0200
- To: Cameron Heavon-Jones <cmhjones@gmail.com>
- CC: mike amundsen <mamund@yahoo.com>, public-html@w3.org
On 04.04.2011 18:08, Cameron Heavon-Jones wrote: > Since PUT and DELETE responses are non-cachable, the default behaviour to avoid protocol inefficiencies should be to return no content - unless the client has specifically requested content. > > A html representation is a valid response body for PUT and DELETE, especially if it was the format of request generation as is the case from forms. It need not be a full representation of the resource, which would be overkill for an operation over that representation, but should be a formatted response to the request - WebDAV has chosen plain text to represent this. ...WebDAV (the spec) hasn't chosen any specific format. The tricky question is: how does the server know that a PUT was the result of a form submission? Checking the content type appears to be fragile; in particular if later on we want to extend the set of types. > ... BR, Julian
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