On 2/12/06, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this is a problem. > > Is the WG prepared to think seriously about a Pace to allow replacing > and deleting entries via POST? > > If not, I'll write an I-D for an extension to make this possible. -Tim
Tim, At Google, we've had several internal discussions on this issue. Our concerns aren't the ones you cited (low-end servers not supporting PUT/DELETE) but rather the possibility that intermediate proxies might have issues with PUT/DELETE. We've been considering a workaround similar to the one proposed by James in this thread (POST to resource URI with header indicating the target operation). For us, this is only considered to be a transient workaround due to the fact that the Net infrastructure can evolve sloppily and at different rates, and PUT/DELETE just aren't used frequently enough (yet) to expect 100% support. For Google (a service provider), it's not OK to take a dogmatic line and say that users can't access services until intermediaries get fixed. So while I wouldn't necessarily advocate extending APP core to codify this behavior, I think we'd be amenable to the draft I-D extension approach and would be very likely support it. Cheers! -- Kyle
