- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:38:50 +0000
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Jeffrey Winter wrote, > Miles Sabin wrote > > I don't think that is the only issue. Support for OPTIONS is far > > less widespread than support for extension request/response > > headers. > > Granted, and this is infact the exact argument forwarded by Costello > in a discussion we had on rest-discuss. My argument is that any new > headers aren't currently supported either so from that perspective > I don't see an issue. Extension _headers_ are close to universally supported. I could sit down right now and write a Java client which added a Meta: request header to requests, set up an Apache instance which used mod_rewrite to respond appropriately, and expect the pair to be able to communicate through arbitrary proxies and firewalls. Cheers, Miles
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