Re: ISSUE-58: the simple solution to inlined membership - ISSUE-45

hello henry.

On 2013-05-18 10:14 , "Henry Story" <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
>>No, the reason was that POST is HTTP's catch-all extension point for
>>"other" operations, and it would be bad to "use up" that extension point
>>on all LDP-managed resources. LDP implementers should have the liberty
>>of using POST to an LDPR for other things beside append
>yes, so PATCH was suggested instead. Still the semantics of POST in HTTP
>is that it is
>to create a new resource or to append to the resource. So perhaps we
>should reconsider.

that's historical by now and not as HTTP has been used for the last couple
of years. 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-22#section-4.3.3
 thus is much more general and simply says:

"The POST method requests that the target resource process the
representation enclosed in the request according to the resource's own
specific semantics."

cheers,

dret.

Received on Saturday, 18 May 2013 17:35:14 UTC