On 3/24/06, David Sklar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James M Snell wrote: > > Tim Bray wrote: > >> [snip] > >> Sounds to me like the spec needs tightening up here. At the *very > >> least* we should write in Toru's finding: "You can't count on what, if > >> anything, comes back". Should we consider asserting that nothing comes > >> back from an entry-creation POST? -Tim > >> > > > > +1 on tightening the spec. However, I would suggest saying instead that > > if anything does come back, it should be the atom entry as it would > > appear in the collection's feed (e.g. a non-editable representation). > > This is helpful in implementations (such as ours) in which server is > annotating the entry with various extensions or attributes that the > client doesn't provide; it is a useful optimization over having the > client issue another request to the URL in the response's Location > header to retrieved the annotated entry.
+1. We see similar usability benefits in echoing back the entry on POST as opposed to making the client retrieve it immediately. I'd be -1 on any proposal that explicitly prohibited this. -- Kyle
