Re: Resumable Uploads

[Daniel Stenberg <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Julian Reschke wrote:

> "An origin server SHOULD reject any PUT request that contains a 
> Content-Range header field (Section 4.2 of [Part5]), since it might be 
> misinterpreted as partial content (or might be partial content that is being 
> mistakenly PUT as a full representation).

This explanation basically rules out PUT completely for upload resume, as even 
if this would instead be done with an imaginary new header called 
Partial-update-of-remote-thing-please:, it could also become subject of 
getting handled as a full representation by mistake.

And if PATCH is ruled out because how browser APIs, I guess only POST is left.

(I personally don't think limitations in existing APIs are a very good 
arguments though, as we're surely forced to update things - including APIs - 
to take advantage of this once we agree on how things should work.)

> If you believe that this is unreasonable, now and here are the right place 
> to discuss it.

My personal belief used to be that Content-Range was a suitable header for 
this purpose, back with the original RFC2616 wording. With the updated httpbis 
wording it is clear that Content-Range doesn't work for this.

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  / daniel.haxx.se