- From: Gregory Williams <greg@evilfunhouse.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:50:05 -0400
- To: SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Jul 1, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> I found this in the HTTP 1.1 spec:
>
> "If the Request-URI is an asterisk ("*"), the OPTIONS request is
> intended to
> apply to the server in general rather than to a specific resource."
>
> Perhaps that could be of use?
>
> OPTIONS *
>
> would return a list of endpoint URIs? This could be an optional part
> of the
> spec to not place too much of a burden on implementers that don't
> need it.
Doesn't this assume that you have control over the entire server? This
would be a non-starter for any endpoint that didn't, e.g. a directory-
based apache handler, or a CGI.
And there's still the tool support issue of using OPTIONS, compared to
the much more prevalent GET/HEAD/POST verbs.
.greg
Received on Wednesday, 1 July 2009 12:50:58 UTC