#17 closed design (fixed)
Revise description of the POST method
Reported by: | mnot@… | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | Milestone: | 01 | |
Component: | p2-semantics | Severity: | |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
The description of POST was broadened over time, and is not clear. It is clarified by the following changes in Section 9.5:
The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line.
should be:
The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as data to be processed by the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line.
Likewise:
The actual function performed by the POST method is determined by the server and is usually dependent on the Request-URI. The posted entity is subordinate to that URI in the same way that a file is subordinate to a directory containing it, a news article is subordinate to a newsgroup to which it is posted, or a record is subordinate to a database.
should be:
The actual function performed by the POST method is determined by the server and is usually dependent on the Request-URI.
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by fielding@…
- Milestone set to 01
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
- version set to 00
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by mnot@…
- version changed from 00 to d00
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by julian.reschke@…
- Component set to p2-semantics
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