On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:50 +0200, Jonas Pfenniger wrote: > 2007/9/28, Nathaniel Talbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As far as I can tell, sending an actual HTTP PUT request to a Camping > > app will never parse the params out of the request body - or am I > > going nuts? > > No you aren't at all. Actually, Camping is only a toy to quickly hack > small apps together. I am highly skeptical that we'll never be able to > implement the 397K of the HTTP1.1 rfc into it's 4K limitation but I > would be happy if somebody does it :) In the mean time, it doesn't > mean that it can't provide some facilities for extension. Actually, > the initialize method is the biggest method in Camping and I remember > _why talking about splitting it up. > > Concerning the PUT method, the rfc starts it's description with the > following terms : "The PUT method requests that the enclosed entity be > stored under the supplied Request-URI." (sec9.6). As I understand it, > it is intended to store files under a specific URL, but who knows what > an "entity" exactly is ? If I am right, a form is not really a file > since it's entries order are not strictly defined. At least, it > rapidly becomes complex because the RFC doesn't specifies a strict > list of accepted verbs. From the standard ones, OPTION, GET, HEAD and > TRACE should be "safe" and thus not accepting "post" data I guess and > DELETE makes no sense with an entity attached but I didn't find any > MUST or SHOULD attached to that assertion. >
The entity is the requst body. It's in the RFC. PUT does specify to store something -- there's response codes for "We assigned a URI" (201 -- Created, with Location:) It's very different than POST -- Far more semantic load than POST. I'm using PUT in Camping with no trouble -- XML body, doing CalDAV -- and it works well. But it's totally different than POST, true. Aria
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