Joe Gregorio schrieb:
... This is the documented consensus of the WG. The next draft will have verbage that makes this position clearer. If some implementations find that too loose and want octet-for-octet storage they can use always WebDAV.[1] http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg05415.html
WebDAV doesn't make any promises about what servers do upon PUT. It just relies on RFC2616.
Best regards, Julian