Re: Accept on GET and access control

> [[
> 4.9.2 LDP servers must indicate their support for HTTP Methods by 
> responding to a HTTP OPTIONS request on the LDPR’s URL with the HTTP
> Method tokens in the HTTP response header Allow.
> ]]
> 
> It is not a hint. It is a statement by the server that certain methods 
> are allowed at the time of the request of course.

Follow your nose.
HTTP normatively defines the header.  That definition says that it is a 
hint.
LDP can (does, today) require servers to provide it, but since LDP does 
not constrain it to be something else (assuming HTTP allows that, which is 
unclear to me but I'd lean toward "no, not allowed"), it's still a hint.
It's still valuable, for all the reasons you point out.  Clients simply 
have a higher "probability" (p=1.0) of receiving that hint from an 
LDP-compliant HTTP server.


Best Regards, John

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