- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:49:34 +0100
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, CalDAV DevList <ietf-caldav@osafoundation.org>, WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> Jamie Lokier wrote: >> >>> I believe Julian wants to "create resource" with an arbitrary content >>> type - _without_ the content type having any effect on the action that >>> is taken to create the resource. >> >> >> Correct. > > > General-purpose HTTP servers will not allow that for security > reasons. They use the media type internally as an extensibility > mechanism. Yes. But I'm not speaking of general-purpose servers, but of servers that *do* want to allow that (just like every off-the-shelf WebDAV server). Best regards, Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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