RE: Re: Re: Re: POST and if-modified-since

2012-09-04 Thread Koen Maes
which date does the browser send ? you would expect the last-modified date from the same request, but there is no get ? still puzzling for me. and don't you use these headers for concurrent modification/optimistic updates normally ? -- http://r

Re: Re: Re: POST and if-modified-since

2012-09-04 Thread Tim Peierls
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Koen Maes wrote: > It is indeed a edge case where you have a POST and no get. By "edge case", I was referring not to the practice of having POST-only resources (which isn't at all unusual) but to the presence of an If-Modified-Since header in a request to such a

RE: Re: Re: POST and if-modified-since

2012-09-04 Thread Koen Maes
Ok, my mistake not If-none-match but if-modified-since -- http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3003440

RE: Re: Re: POST and if-modified-since

2012-09-04 Thread Koen Maes
It is indeed a edge case where you have a POST and no get. I wonder where the browser gets its ETAG from then ??? -- http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3003438

Re: Re: POST and if-modified-since

2012-09-04 Thread Tim Peierls
I'm sure everyone agrees that conditional GET and PUT are essential tools. Restlet's support for these is one of the things that drew me to Restlet in the first place. But the original question was about conditional POST (if-modified-since header in POST request). What does it mean? Unless you hav

RE: Re: POST and if-modified-since

2012-09-04 Thread Koen Maes
I do not feel it is a mistake that browsers exhibit this behaviour, on the contrary. I have asked a similar question in this forum before, on how to work with ETag and wether I had to manage a cache of my own and verify with the server for 304's. The given behaviour, it turns out, I just don't