- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:58:45 PDT
- To: <ejw@ics.uci.edu>, "Yoram Last" <ylast@mindless.com>
- Cc: "WEBDAV WG" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
If you believe that HTTP/1.1 would be improved with a cleaner definition of PUT and DELETE, then I suggest you write a separate document defining these more clearly, and purpose it as an update to the HTTP specification. It could be a Proposed Standard to update the HTTP/1.1 Draft Standard. My understanding is that what you're looking for isn't so much a change to existing implementations of HTTP, but rather a clarification and refinement of the definition of two operators that are not widely used and are only weakly specified. My belief is that HTTP interoperability testing for PUT and DELETE has been superficial. Although HTTP-WG is officially closing, it doesn't mean that more work on HTTP itself can't happen. And the WebDAV group is a good example of where future refinements might arise. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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