Re: What do we get with PUT/DELETE?

["Jeffrey Winter" <jeffreywinter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm curious: do you think such HTTP extension as WebDAV were poorly
designed; that they should, in fact, have simply defined a set of action
tags and done everything over POST?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Bray" <tbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ken MacLeod" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <atom-syntax@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: What do we get with PUT/DELETE?


> On Feb 24, 2004, at 9:18 PM, Ken MacLeod wrote:
> >
> > Off the top of my head, we get:
>
> In your list, I do not observe any entries that amount to "this will
> make it easier to implement" or "this will enable features that would
> not otherwise be possible."  Thus you are missing the two most powerful
> engineering arguments are are facing an up-hill struggle.  In fact, it
> is observable that insisting on PUT & DELETE in fact adds to the
> difficulty of implementation in some contexts; which seems fatal to me
> when the arguments in favor are so philosophical. -Tim