Re: A modest attempt to re-open ISSUE-20 from Erik Wilde on 2013-03-14 (public-ldp@w3.org from March 2013)

From: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:09:43 -0700
To: Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org>
CC: Pierre-Antoine Champin <pierre-antoine.champin@liris.cnrs.fr>, James Leigh <james@3roundstones.com>, "public-ldp@w3.org" <public-ldp@w3.org>
Message-ID: <51420457.7060406@berkeley.edu>

hello martynas.

On 2013-03-14 9:48 , Martynas Jusevičius wrote:
> am I not reading the HTTP spec right then?
>     Proper interpretation of a PUT request presumes that the user agent
>     knows what target resource is desired.  A service that is intended to
>     select a proper URI on behalf of the client, after receiving a state-
>     changing request, SHOULD be implemented using the POST method rather
>     than PUT.

i don't know how you're reading that, but it clearly says the method 
"presumes that the user agent knows what target resource is desired." in 
the case of a newly created resource, this identifier is not yet known. 
creating it is under control of the server, so the client doesn't know 
this URI.

cheers,

dret.

Received on Thursday, 14 March 2013 17:10:12 UTC