Re: PUT response

[Erik Wilde <dret@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hello.

Daniel Jalkut wrote:
> My current reading of the RFC indicates that PUT does not return an 
> entity. Just a status code.
> Does anybody have an opinion as to whether it leaves room for an entity 
> to be returned? I can't tell.

i think it is the same thing as with the question whether GET may have 
an entity and POST is allowed to have no entity: people have opinions 
about that and these opinions have been implemented, but they are not 
consistent because the spec is not very clear about these issues.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-02.txt

is the ongoing project to come up with a new revision of HTTP/1.1, which 
should address issues like this. i have to admit that so far i have only 
briefly skimmed the draft, but it seems to me that there still is no 
clear statement about these questions. my personal interpretation is 
that if something is not explicitly disallowed, it is allowed, but not 
everybody shares this opinion, so some clarification would be a good 
thing to avoid implementation inconsistencies.

cheers,

erik wilde   tel:+1-510-6432253 - fax:+1-510-6425814
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