- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 12:27:20 +0000
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com>, "www-tag.w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
It's perhaps worth quoting from HTTPbis [1] at this point:
Resource owners SHOULD NOT include request semantics within a URI,
such as by specifying an action to invoke within the path or query
components of the effective request URI, unless those semantics are
disabled when they are inconsistent with the request method.
I'm not sure the extent to which this might/should be taken to apply
to _method.
The preceding sentence:
One design goal of HTTP is to separate resource identification from
request semantics, which is made possible by vesting the request
semantics in the request method (Section 4) and a few request-
modifying header fields (Section 5).
might also be read as applying to X-HTTP-Method-Override.
ht
[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-24#section-2
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