Submit method: DELETE?

• From: Steffen Goeldner <sgoeldner@cpan.org>
• Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:41:17 +0200
• To: www-html@w3.org, www-forms@w3.org
• Message-ID: <42B6C77D.4010503@cpan.org>

What's the reason that no W3C Forms specifications allows
DELETE as submit method?

   <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.3>
   <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.1>
   <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xforms-20031014/slice11.html#submit-options>

In contrast, Web Forms 2.0 allows it:

   <http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#methodAndEnctypes>

Why do they limit the set of submit methods at all,
given that the set of common HTTP methods can be
expanded?

   <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html#sec5.1.1>
   <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html>


Regards, Steffen Goeldner

Received on Monday, 20 June 2005 14:27:30 UTC