Re: PUT response

[Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could you clarify? 2616#14.14 defines the Content-Location independent  
of the verb being used. My reading is that Content-Location does  
indicate that the body includes a representation of the resource.

Subbu

On Apr 24, 2008, at 7:15 AM, James M Snell wrote:
> PUT can return an entity.  No the entity cannot be considered to be  
> a complete representation, even if the response contains Content- 
> Location.  You'll need to issue a GET to retrieve the complete  
> representation.
>
> - James
>
> 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.
> > Daniel
> > On Apr 23, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Nikunj Mehta wrote:
> > > If the response to a PUT request on an entry's edit URL contains  
> > > an entry document in a 200 response, then
> > >
> > > 1. Can the response entity be considered a complete representation?
> > > 2. What if the response contains Content-Location header?
> > >
> > > The HTTP spec states that
> > >
> > >  Responses to this [PUT] method are not cacheable.
> > >
> > > As per that, an HTTP cache is unlikely to hold on to the response  
> > > entity and use it upon a subsequent GET to the same entry's edit  
> > > URL, correct?
> > >
> > > Nikunj