On Apr 5, 2005 6:50 PM, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Joe Gregorio wrote: > > > In the Web Forms 2.0 Working Draft dated 16 March 2005 > > > > 5.6. Submitting the encoded form data set > > > > "If the specified method is not one of get, post, > > put, or delete then it is treated as get in the tables below." > > > > It would be much better if just one word of that sentence was changed: > > > > "If the specified method is not one of get, post, > > put, or delete then it is treated as *post* in the tables below." > > I agree. Sadly, doing this would break compatibility with existing > implementations, which all treat unknown values as "get".
Would that really 'break' anything? If that is the default behaviour today then clients would expect not to be able to send a request body with a method outside POST and PUT. Adding that capability won't break their code, will it? Thanks, -joe -- Joe Gregorio http://bitworking.org