Re: GET before PUT on an EditURI

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Jul 13, 2004, at 7:26 PM, Joe Gregorio wrote:

> > [page 5/sect 3.2] the description reads like it's forbidden to do a 
> > PUT
> > without doing a GET first.  Is this true?  If I know the URI and I 
> > know
> > what I want to put there, can't I just blast it in?
>
> You could, but you might not want to.
>
> Consider the case of a Wiki.

... reasonable use-case elided.

The use-case granted, here's another: I'm a CMS blasting out deltas to 
a feed, where I know something's been updated and I own the data and 
the feed and I just want to damn well update it and not waste cycles 
doing a GET.

So all I'm saying is that the language which explains how you'd 
reasonably use PUT and GET, should also make it clear that PUT does 
what PUT does, and there's no compulsory preceding GET.  -Tim