- From: Gregory J. Woodhouse <gjw@wnetc.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 04:36:09 -0800 (PST)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- cc: yarong@microsoft.com, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Larry Masinter wrote: > MIME parameters are normally descriptive of the nature of the content, > and don't really express operations. What I was thinking of for having > actions be expressed as POST was really that the POST-ed data might be > > multipart/action-request > > part 1: type = action-description > part 2: related data > part 3: related data > > and that you could be backward compatible by supporting forms that > used multipart/form-data. > > Larry > > > > I like this better. I wasn't altogether comfortable with application/webdav for the same reasons you state but couldn't think of anything better at the time. --- Gregory Woodhouse gjw@wnetc.com home page: http://www.wnetc.com/home.html resource page: http://www.wnetc.com/resource/
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