Robert Sayre wrote:
Tim Bray wrote:
That's the subtext of all the arguments for POST, I think. Unfortunately, it's not really backed by anything other than religion.
Not true, Robert. In this case, the argument presented for ERR hasn't be compelling enough, technically or otherwise. Stepping back a bit, I see nothing that requires us to spec out a new HTTP method for such a feature. I do believe we're making things hard for ourselves for little benefit.
It's also humorous to me that most of the people who feel that way have no problem with inventing new verbs by extending HTTP with custom headers.
On the whole I don't think it's up to me to be convincing people who want new verbs against them - that's backways.
Also (and this is *not* directed at you Robert), arguing that a verb is generic because the HTTP responses to the fact of it not generally being deployed are uniform is certainly incoherent and very probably specious. I won't be going down that particular rathole again.
cheers Bill
