Opened 14 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#171 closed design (fixed)
Are OPTIONS and TRACE safe?
Reported by: | mnot@… | Owned by: | julian.reschke@… |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 11 |
Component: | p2-semantics | Severity: | Active WG Document |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
p2 7.2 currently says about OPTIONS: This method allows the client to
determine the options and/or requirements associated with a resource, or the capabilities of a server, without implying a resource action or initiating a resource retrieval.
That sounds safe to me, but I don't see anywhere where this is said explicitly.
The answer matters for things like redirection without user intervention (assuming we keep that requirement).
Proposal: Specify that OPTIONS is safe.
Same question for TRACE.
Note that the method registry template (new in bis) already identifies them as safe.
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comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by mnot@…
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Proposal: close this one.
Open a new issue about restructuring all method descriptions to be more consistent with respect to safeness, caching, whatnot.
comment:7 Changed 13 years ago by julian.reschke@…
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See also text in 2616 9.1.2:
Also, the methods OPTIONS and