- From: Ugo Corda <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:52:22 -0800
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
> This is in contrast to if the ugly string was just opaque > data on which > no further dispatch decision could be made. Then the > intermediary would > be able to conclude that the client was trying to set the state of the > identified resource to the value in that string, even if it > didn't know > anything about the string or its meaning. Why? PUT is idempotent but not safe. RFC 2616 says "HTTP/1.1 does not define how a PUT method affects the state of an origin server". Ugo
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