On Jun 17, 2007, at 7:42 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > So I'm assuming there is no issue with > outlawing PUT (within a system) on new resources and just using POST?
PUT is nice because it's [supposed to be] idempotent. POST is not. This means that a client is allowed (within REST's constraints) to retry a PUT if it hasn't received a response. If you have only POST - for whatever reason - you need to do something else. Examples include http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/ draft-nottingham-http-poe/ and http://www.goland.org/draft-goland- http-reliability-00.text Stefan -- Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/
