Re: PaceOnlyMemberURI

On 8/17/06, Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn-m5PkvKSt0N+9bSPd/Kb8KQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:00:27 +0200, Tim Bray 
> <Tim.Bray-UdXhSnd/wVw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm saying that a POST should return the Member URI, the one that you
> > dereference to get an Atom Entry.  The argument is whether that's also
> > the one you send PUT and DELETE messages to.
>
> I think that many implementors will want to point the GET operations to a
> static file lying in the file system, while the PUT and DELETE (and POST,
> for that matter) are handled by a CGI script of some sort.

So write a .htaccess file that does a mod_rewrite on PUT, POST and DELETE,
but leaves the GET alone.

We are using HTTP correctly, this is the kind of benefit you get from that.

 -joe

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