- From: Slein, Judith A <JSlein@crt.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:51:02 -0400
- To: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Yaron: HTTP was crystal clear that DELETE deletes resources. If you want to just remove a name and not a resource then introduce a new method with that functionality. There has been a lotof discussion of this issue on the mailing list in the past. I think the best statements of the rationale for defining DELETE to be removing the binding identified by the request-URI are in these messages: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0018.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0020.html --Judy Judith A. Slein Xerox Corporation jslein@crt.xerox.com (716)422-5169 800 Phillips Road 105/50C Webster, NY 14580
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