- From: Steve Speicher <sspeiche@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:17:33 -0500
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Cc: "public-ldp-wg@w3.org" <public-ldp-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote: > ISSUE-36: Can applications create new containers? > > We cannot make a collection by POSTing a doument on a collection, since that > creates a resource. We therefore would need a different HTTP Method to do this. > Why can't we do this? A Container/Collection IS a resource. So therefore POST'ing the representation of it seems like the most obvious way to create one. > I suggest MKCOL from WebDAV, since it is already defined. > > > http://restpatterns.org/HTTP_Methods/MKCOL > > > The content of the body, could be Triples that describe things > that can be put into the collection. As it happens that is not > defined yet it seems, so we can define it. > > Any thoughts on that? I'll try implementing that. > Seems like we'd have to dig into more of what the semantics of that verb says [1] but feels a little like we'd have to adapt more of WebDAV instead of just reusing the verb and giving it our own special meaning. [1] - http://www.webdav.org/specs/rfc2518.html#METHOD_MKCOL > Henry > > Social Web Architect > http://bblfish.net/ > -- - Steve
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