- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:36:53 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Joe Gregorio wrote: > > > > > > "If the specified method is not one of get, post, > > > put, or delete then it is treated as *post* in the tables > > > below." > > > > I agree. Sadly, doing this would break compatibility with existing > > implementations, which all treat unknown values as "get". > > Would that really 'break' anything? If that is the default behaviour > today then clients would expect not to be able to send a request body > with a method outside POST and PUT. Adding that capability won't break > their code, will it? If anyone has a form that says: <form method="ge"> ...then at the moment it'll be treated as GET. If you change the default to "post", it'll no longer be treated as GET. I really don't feel comfortable changing things that all browsers do. If all the browsers interoperate on something, we should celebrate that thing and leave it well alone... It's so rare... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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