Re: Restoring PUT and DELETE

On 2011-12-02 15:33, Cameron Heavon-Jones wrote:
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>> Many current server implementations of "PUT" treat the payload as what should be stored, and do not unwrap it. Why would they?
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>> The way to PUT binaries is to send them as-is.
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>> What problem do we solve by using multipart?
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> i think the usage of PUT should be a bit more flexible than binary representations - the semantics are on uploading a representation, not a binary copy.
> ...

Yes. But what problem are we solving by using multipart?

> ok, but that is still a different problem and while related i don't think it should hold back specifying how forms can work.

Indeed. Specification-wise there's nothing left to do except reminding 
implementers about what the correct behavior is (and optimally have that 
in test cases).

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 2 December 2011 14:39:16 UTC