+1. I'm not volunteering to write up the text, but it would definitely be good to clearly describe this issue and it's solutions.
- James Tim Bray wrote: > > On Jun 3, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Joe Gregorio wrote: > >> I always considered this chain of custody to be a little awkward. If >> I POST a new entry, in order to keep track of it I need >> to post the entry, get the Location: header in the response >> and then do a GET on that URI to get the updated entry >> with the atom:id. >> >> Entry(POST) -> Location: <URI> -> Entry(GET) -> atom:id >> >> I saw returning the Entry as a method to provide the atom:id >> in the response > > Would anyone have a problem with writing that bit of non-normative > explanation into the spec? Seems a non-obvious but very useful point. > -Tim > >
