Re: draft-jennings-app-dns-update-00

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 08 July 2008 16:47 UTC

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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:47:34 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
Subject: Re: draft-jennings-app-dns-update-00
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:41:44PM -0400,
 Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote 
 a message of 34 lines which said:

> PUT seems the right method to use for updating existing records,
> while POST seems appropriate for adding new records.

That's not what RFC 2616 says.

   The fundamental difference between the POST and PUT requests is
   reflected in the different meaning of the Request-URI. The URI in a
   POST request identifies the resource that will handle the enclosed
   entity.
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