Re: Delete from Klotz, Leigh on 2005-04-27 (www-forms-editor@w3.org from April 2005)

From: Klotz, Leigh <Leigh.Klotz@xerox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:02:45 -0700
To: <www-forms-editor@w3.org>
Cc: <joe@bitworking.org>, "Klotz, Leigh" <Leigh.Klotz@xerox.com>
Message-ID: <E254B0A7E0268949ABFE5EA97B7D0CF45DD283@usa7061ms01.na.xerox.net>

Joe Gregorio <joe@bitworking.org>  wrote:
>I just reviewed the document http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms-11-req/
>and noted that it lacked any mention of the method 'delete' or
>of any other HTTP verbs. Am I correct then in understanding that
>future work on XForms will not fix this mismatch between
>XForms and HTTP, the mismatch in which XForms uses HTTP but
>only allows 3 HTTP methods to be used?

The main blocking issue for DELETE in XForms 1.0 was the lack of ability
to obtain HTTP result codes in the submit-done and related events.
Since XForms 1.1 resolves the result code issue, I would also encourage
the allowance of method="delete".

Leigh.

Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:03:21 UTC