- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:02:40 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
On Feb 15, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > recently different communities (caldav/groupdav, atompup (protocol > part)) have been discussing how to use HTTP to author new resources > when > the URL namespace is completely server-controlled, thus PUT just > doesn't > fit well. > > A simple approach would be to define a new HTTP method which is > *almost* > like PUT, except that the server chooses the URL to create (and returns > it in the Location header). > > I've submitted a first draft as "draft-reschke-http-addmember-00". Note > that it also contains an appendix covering possible alternative > approaches. Julian, POST to a collection resource is already defined as adding a member resource. That was its very first definition (hence, named after NNTP's post) and remains applicable today. Cheers, Roy T. Fielding <http://roy.gbiv.com/> Chief Scientist, Day Software <http://www.day.com/>
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