Hi.

I'm new to the list, so excuse me if my question is dumb.

I've read the latest spec (draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-06) nd most of
the older versions:

"8.2 Entry Collections
Entry Collections are collections that restrict their membership to
Atom Entries."
[...]
"8.2.1 Role of Atom Entry Elements During Editing
The elements of an Atom Entry Document are either a client writable or
server controlled."

So why does the spec mandate the HTTP PUT method for updating Atom Entries?

The HTTP spec defines (HTTP 9.6): "The PUT method requests that the
enclosed entity be stored under the supplied Request-URI.".

In my understanding this means that a GET after a PUT will return
exactly the same body.
But if the server modfies some of the XML elements (because they are
server controlled) this is no longer true.

Thanks, Olli

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og

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