Patrick, On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:09:02PM +0200, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote: > It seems to me that there is no presently defined way to use POST > to submit a representation to a web authority, such that the web > authority would know based on the HTTP request that the content > body of the request consists of a representation. As I see it, all data is a representation of the state of some resource. > After all, that's what PUT is for. PUT just prescribes that the provided representation is to be interpreted as a representation of the desired state of the resource identified in the HTTP request line. It's not special in its ability to transfer representations. Consider that I could script a couple of HTTP messages that set the state of a lightbulb to the same state of some other lightbulb, but in the second message - the PUT request - the provided representation is a representation of the state of the first lightbulb. Not until the PUT request succeeds is it also a representation of the second bulb. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.caReceived on Monday, 22 November 2004 15:56:42 UTC
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