- From: Martynas Jusevicius <martynas@graphity.org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:07:54 +0100
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
FYI: Jersey, which is an implementation of JAX-RS (Java API for RESTful Web Services) supports X-HTTP-Method-Override as well: https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/2.3.1/jersey/org/glassfish/jersey/server/filter/HttpMethodOverrideFilter.html https://jersey.java.net/apidocs/1.17/jersey/com/sun/jersey/api/container/filter/PostReplaceFilter.html Martynas graphityhq.com On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Jonathan Rees just called this to my attention, see e.g. [1]. Its use > is evidently recommended by Google [2], Microsoft [3] and Django [4]. > > Seems like a bad idea at best to me. . . I'd like to hear from Alex > about this, as [2] seems to come from somewhere near where he sits, > and from Yehuda, since Rails does (did?) support this as well. . . > > ht > > [1] http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-restful-api#method-override > [2] https://developers.google.com/gdata/docs/2.0/basics#DeletingEntry > [3] http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Support-for-X-HTTP-Method-9f71ceb1 > [4] http://django-rest-framework.org/topics/browser-enhancements.html > -- > Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 > Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk > URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ > [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] >
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