Re: GET before PUT on an EditURI

[Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janne Jalkanen wrote:

> > How about stating that the client SHOULD do a GET before editing?
> >  
>
> I think a SHOULD is in order, since nothing really breaks if it's not 
> required; however a MUST would mean that it would be an inconvinience 
> to many.


I don't understand why we need this. If the client PUTs something that 
conflicts with the state of  the resource, it's the server's 
responsibility to spot the conflict. All server code will have to assume 
that clients will be ignorantly PUTing things all over the place.

Robert Sayre