rfc2518bis Safe Methods vs Redirection issue

• From: Jim Luther <luther.j@apple.com>
• Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:02:43 -0700
• To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
• Message-Id: <58BB3662-059E-11D9-A08C-000A95DC65E0@apple.com>

In the HTTP/1.1 Specification Errata <http://purl.org/NET/http-errata> 
there is a section titled "Safe Methods vs Redirection" which concludes 
with "It would also be helpful for each of the method definition 
sections to specifically define whether or not the method is safe. 
OPTIONS, GET, and HEAD are all safe in RFC 2616. HTTP extensions like 
WebDAV define additional safe methods."

I don't see anywhere in rfc2518 or rfc2518bis where WebDAV methods are 
defined as safe or unsafe. rfc2518bis should probably state which 
WebDAV methods are safe and which are unsafe.

In my code, I'm assuming PROPFIND is a safe method and that PROPPATCH, 
MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK are unsafe methods by the 
definitions in rfc2616, section 9.1.1 "Safe Methods". Does that sound 
right to the working group?

- Jim

Received on Monday, 13 September 2004 16:03:18 UTC