I am forwarding this e-mail from Anne since it does not appear in the
public-appformats archive; my apologies for any dups you may receive ...
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Resent-From: "Anne van Kesteren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "ext Anne van Kesteren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 12, 2008 5:39:12 AM EST
Resent-To: "WAF WG (public)" <[email protected]>
To: "Web API WG (public)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPTIONS and Method-Check
Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
t60.oslo.opera.com>
(Resending as I initially e-mailed this to the wrong list, public-
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
I and other played a bit more with our Apache installs (mine is on the
shared-host DreamHost) in #html-wg yesterday and it turns out that
OPTIONS
now works as Björn Höhrmann indicated earlier on this list. With
web_dav
installed and without the need for ScriptTrapOptions. Jonas also
seemed
happy with OPTIONS if support for it was present.
The 10 to 20 lines code contest is now also pretty easy to beat. In
Python:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os;
request_method = os.environ["REQUEST_METHOD"]
if "OPTIONS" == request_method:
...
elif "GET" == request_method:
...
else:
...
For PHP you use $_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"], for Perl $ENV
{REQUEST_METHOD},
etc.
I have left the Method-Check header in the specification, but as the
primary (and only?) use case of that header was to indicate that
this is
an authorization request maybe we should remove it. Opinions?
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
