Le 26/03/2025 à 15:48, Laurent Bercot a écrit :
Sorry for being slightly off-topic. I'm essentially lurking on
this list. I find this discussion intriguing because it is the first
time I read about an actual implemention of the PUT, DELETE and PATCH
methods, which, AFAIK, do not have HTML interfaces, and, therefore
are not implemented in browsers.
"actual implementation" may be overstating it.
All the current git head of tipidee (release coming soon-ish) does is
not reject PUT, DELETE and PATCH as soon as it reads the HTTP request
line. It waits until it has identified a resource, and if the resource
is a CGI script, it proceeds with the request - else it still rejects it.
There's no plan to do anything further at this time. As you said, these
methods are not used by browsers, they're only used by HTTP APIs, so
actual work will be performed by the backend. But passing on the
requests to the backend can be done by tipidee at no additional cost,
so I added it.
Sure.
I was very intrigued and it made me dig a little into the question,
I now understand it makes sense to support these PUT, DELETE and PATCH
requests in a general-purpose web server, because they can be generated
by scripts, if not by static HTML pages. I had never thought of it (~:
-- Didier
