On Sun, June 15, 2008 17:40, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >>> I haven't a clue about Delphi but the last line seems a bit wrong, is >>> there no "httpLink.Delete(...)"? >> It is "freed" afterwards out of the scope of this routine. > > That was not what I meant. I meant that you used a "put" command to > execute the "delete" method, whereas you had previously used "put" to > execute "put" and "get" to execute "get".
No, matter of factly you couldn't see the stuff behind the scenes. The HTTP-object is instantiated before calling the routine, that I posted (and destroyed afterwards). So the actual object is kinda 'clean'. > So I was wondering why there > wasn't a "delete" method as well. There *are* HTTP stacks that only > support GET/POST and sometimes HEAD but nothing more; maybe you are > using one of them. Yeah, I was afraid that it was like that. But nevertheless, the Indy-component that I am using has a constant defined for DELETE-Operations, that I used and from there I assumed that this component should support DELETE. > You could of course just implement DELETE yourself by using a generic > TCP socket class, have it connect to the server and send DELETE > /api/0.5/way/1234 HTTP/1.0 but you'd need to do the authentication bit > yourself, i.e. send a proper authorization header (google for HTTP BASIC > AUTH). :-( Actually I want to get on with my app and not get lost in hacking TCP/IP on my own - if you understand what I mean. > Are you implementing an editor? You said initially that you were > extending your GPS display routines to display OSM data, why would you > want to delete OSM data from the server? I am doing 'mapping' since 5 years. And my experience told me that there always is something that is wrong (because for changes in the streets or errors due to bad signal quality) - so deleting is a part of the action. All of my routes and WPs/nodes (more than 200.000) are checked at least 2 times or more often. I am living in a mountain area, where signal quality is often bad. But when the GPSr states: Accuracy=12m this might be utterly wrong due to reflections. Nevertheless I understand your uncertainty, about a newbe suddenly showing up and wanting to know how to DELETE stuff... Well, actually I was testing my export routines and read the output with JOSM - which didn't complain, but screwed up the pasted data that I was copying from one layer to another (which one should NOT do - as I learned now). Nevertheless I thought it was a good idea to test deleting via HTTP, when I wanted to get these errors undone. So for the moment I need 'delete' for testing and I am pretty sure that there will be needs for this after testing has finished. TNX for your answer. -- -m*sh- ___________________________________________________ | harry w. graner |mail: hy [_at_] sha-mash [_dot_] de |--------------------------------------------------- [public gpg-key on request] take a look at my blogs: http://sha-mash.blog.de _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
