Re: updating how Accept-Post works

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Wilde, Erik <Erik.Wilde@emc.com> wrote:

> hello all.
>
> after checking back with steve, it seems like a good idea to change
> Accept-Post so that it uses the media type definition of HTTP's Accept,
> instead of using the one of Accept-Patch. there is no difference for LDP,
> but it makes Accept-Post more widely applicable.
>
> Accept-Patch only allows media types and no wildcards:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5789#section-3.1
>
> Accept allows media types and wildcards:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.1
>
> we believe that aligning Accept-Post with HTTP's Accept is a better idea
> than aligning it with Accept-Patch, and as mentioned above, there is no
> impact on LDP.
>

It should pointed out too that Erik has some use cases for this beyond LDP
that align closer to this model as well (AtomPub) as he points out in the
draft.

- Steve Speicher



>
> https://github.com/dret/I-D/tree/master/accept-post is where the
> pre-publication draft lives, and i will update the current version to the
> new model before submitting it next monday.
>
> cheers,
>
> dret.
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