- From: Ian Davis <lists@iandavis.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:58:26 +0100
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Cc: Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, W3C TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Alan Ruttenberg<alanruttenberg@gmail.com> > If a HTTP URI can denote a person, then what is > the verb DELETE supposed to do? It doesn't do anything. You can't DELETE a person using HTTP just like you can't GET a person using HTTP (or a representation of them). Same goes for PUT and POST. I find it easier to understand resources and information resources using the semantics of PUT than I do with the semantics of GET: can one alter the state of the resource using HTTP? The answer is true for information resources and always false for non-information resources. Ian
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