Re: POST & HTTP Update

On 25/11/10 16:15, Steve Harris wrote:
> On 2010-11-25, at 14:50, Andy Seaborne wrote:
>>
>> On 25/11/10 10:40, Steve Harris wrote:
>> ..
>>> The fact that POST updates are not yet fully specified in http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-http-rdf-update/#http-post is a source of concern to us.
>>>
>>> - Steve
>>
>> Could you say what isn't specified and should be?
>
> I don't remember exactly. I think it wasn't clear if the payload should me a mime form, or GET-style URI fields.
>
>> Currently I use the Content-type to get the syntax, the body is the payload and payload = RDF document from earlier in the spec.
>
> Where do you get the graph URI from?

If it's an http-rdf-update POST, it's ?graph= or ?default as for all the 
other operations specifically PUT.

That's hard to drive from a form - need a bit of client-side code to 
create the URL to POST to).  I don't drive HTTP RDF Update from a plain 
HTML form.

	Andy

>> I return 200 if the target existed, and 201 if it didn't which is my (limited) understand of correct status codes for HTTP.
>
> Sounds reasonable. I don't know what we do offhand.
>
> - Steve
>

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