Re: What do we get with PUT/DELETE?

[Bill de hÓra <bill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Bray wrote:

> 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 

?

The most powerful engineering arguments involve ratios that optimise
some cost. Are we in a position to evaluate costs here?


> are are facing an up-hill struggle.  

No argument there.


> In fact, it 
> is observable that insisting on PUT & DELETE in fact adds to the 
> difficulty of implementation in some contexts; 

What are those facts?


> which seems fatal to me 
> when the arguments in favor are so philosophical.

It seems to me the onus is on those who want to use a HTTP subset to
make the case, not vice versa. Appeals to popularity (~200M Java
clients don't support PUT/DELETE) or inertia (it's been this way
since HTML forms), or some kind of expediency are perfectly fine by
me, but asking or expecting an engineering counter-argument doesn't
make much sense.

Bill de hÓra