- From: Erik Selberg <speed@cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:55:16 PST
- To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Cc: www-lib@w3.org
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen writes: > However, the new patch that I mailed earlier today seems to make up for it, so > let me explain what exactly you can do: > - You can PUT or POST a document _from_ either a remote HTTP server or the > local file system _to_ a remote HTTP server. This may not be the right time / place for this, but it looks like your definition of POST is different than what most of us believe it to be. My own, possible naive, belief is that POST is a method wherein a client sends extra data along with the request after the headers. It's similar to an e-mail or news posting. This is similar to GET using the ? operator in the URL. The data that is typically sent is usually some encoded goop following the key=val&key2=val2 standard. The POSTweb stuff you provide, while claiming to be POST, seems to be more like a multicast PUT. It looks to be designed to do annotation or, as you say, sending either files or remote documents to a remote server. I hope you can see the confusion; it seems that what people want is the POST ability so that fill-out forms can easily be done. The extra functionality is great, but I'm not sure that its being used, and I suspect that the terminology is confusing that people don't understand exactly what is meant. -Erik
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