On 2/13/06, John Panzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danny Ayers wrote: > On 2/12/06, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was talking to Matt Mullenweg yesterday and he remarked that he > didn't think WordPress could realistically support APP as it stands > now, because WP is commonly used by people on low-rent hosting > providers and quite a few of those don't support the use of PUT and > DELETE. > > Does anyone happen to know of any surveys of what is generally supported? > > From my own experience with low-rent hosting I generally haven't had a > clue whether or PUT and DELETE are supported or not, it's not been > something I'd have looked for. The conjecture that these methods > aren't generally supported sounds plausible, but it would be good to > have hard facts about the scale of the problem before creating > solutions that might erode WebArch.
+1 > I just did a quick test with my own medium-rent hosting provider, and it > appears to pass through PUT and DELETE fine to cgi scripts (though OPTIONS > doesn't list them, perhaps that's an issue). OPTIONS is a known issue under Apache, just recently fixed: http://www.mnot.net/blog/2005/10/19/options > I used a little Perl script > and printed $req->cgi->var("REQUEST_METHOD") and it came > out fine. > > Anybody want to start a Wiki page to hold test results? http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PutDeleteSupport#head-1ed0e9c0ec0df3ec3c1c1ff9a5a471963d5924e9 -joe -- Joe Gregorio http://bitworking.org
