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Re: [Ietf-caldav] [Fwd: draft-reschke-http-addmember-00]

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 22 February 2005 16:49 UTC

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Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> 
> On Feb 21, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
>> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>>
>>> I believe Julian wants to "create resource" with an arbitrary content
>>> type - _without_ the content type having any effect on the action that
>>> is taken to create the resource.
>>
>>
>> Correct.
> 
> 
> General-purpose HTTP servers will not allow that for security
> reasons.  They use the media type internally as an extensibility
> mechanism.

Yes. But I'm not speaking of general-purpose servers, but of servers 
that *do* want to allow that (just like every off-the-shelf WebDAV server).

Best regards, Julian


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