On 6/13/06, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tim Bray wrote: > [snip] > I think we can agree that the server you describe is engaging in bad > practice. Are we discussing whether it's worthwhile putting language in > the spec explicitly to discourage it? -Tim > > -1. The server is free to do whatever it wants with the data inside the entry. A server dropping an unknown/undesired extension element from a posted entry is not necessarily a bad practice. The server may simply not be capable of retaining extensions it does not understand.
If it's not capable of storing entities as requested, then it shouldn't send a successful response message to a PUT request, since that's what PUT means. Mark.
