Re: updating annotations from matthew@mjwilson.demon.co.uk on 2002-12-12 (www-annotation@w3.org from July to December 2002)

From: <matthew@mjwilson.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:46:52 +0000
To: "Doug Daniels" <rainking@rice.edu>, charles@w3.org
Cc: www-annotation@w3.org
Message-Id: <E18MOzc-0000kH-0U@anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net>

rainking@rice.edu wrote:

> 
> Yes, both annozilla and amaya use the POST method with ?replace_source
> instead of PUT to update annotations.  As far as annozilla is concerned,
> I'm not certain that the XMLHttpRequest object has PUT implemented yet.
> POST seems to be more commonly available to clients.

I submitted a patch to Mozilla which made XMLHttpRequest accept DELETE as well as GET and POST, I think it should also have allowed PUT.

Matthew Wilson

Received on Thursday, 12 December 2002 03:46:54 UTC