- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:28:26 -0500
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, public-ldp-wg@w3.org
On 02/19/2014 05:38 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 2/19/14 4:16 PM, Sandro Hawke wrote:
>> PUT is semantically the same as PATCH, just slower.
>
> You mean: s/semantically/mechanically ?
What I meant was that anything you want to do with PATCH you could do
with PUT, give or take considerations of round-trip time, efficiency,
and difficulty of implementation. It hadn't occurred to me that
someone (ie Steve) might want to force clients to use PATCH instead of
PUT in order to simplify implementation of the server.
-- Sandro
>
> Isn't PATCH an update i.e., a selective replacement of document
> content? While PUT is for creating a new document or overwriting an
> existing document?
>
> In both cases, the assumption is that URLs denote the documents in
> question.
>
> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5789 -- PATCH .
>
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