- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:01:58 +0100
- To: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
- CC: John Barone <jbarone@xythos.com>, WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Cyrus Daboo wrote: > ... > With PUT, there is already a body being sent - i.e. the actual data of > the resource. So there is no place to put the extension data, except for > the request header (which would not be ideal). One solution, of course, > would be to use a special MIME body with PUT, e.g. a multipart/mixed > where the first part is application/webdav+properties, and the second > part is the actual resource body data. Not sure what implication that > might have. > ... With PUT we would need a way to make sure that the recipient does understand the new MIME type we defined. Instead of overloading PUT, using a body+metadata MIME type with PATCH might work better. Best regards, Julian
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