Re: HTTP QUERY Design Team / Side Meeting

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 19.03.2024 00:17, Glenn Strauss wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 04:45:58PM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> We've scheduled a side meeting room on Thursday afternoon from 5-6pm (Brisbane time) to discuss the HTTP QUERY specification issues in more depth.
>>
>> If you're interested in contributing to this work, please come along; we'll be in M9.
>
> I have some interest, but am not in Brisbane, and I think that would be
> about 3am US/Eastern.  (No, thanks. :))
>
> Some questions about the latest draft:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body
>
> 2. Query
> [...]
>> The semantics of the QUERY method change to a "conditional QUERY" if the request message includes an If-Modified-Since, If-Unmodified- Since, If-Match, If-None-Match, or If-Range header field ([HTTP], Section 13). A conditional QUERY requests that the query be performed only under the circumstances described by the conditional header field(s). It is important to note, however, that such conditions are evaluated against the state of the target resource itself as opposed to the collected results of the search operation.
>
> "search operation" or "query operation"?
> There are three instances of "search" still in the doc, including this one.

I'll fix that.

 > ...

Good points, and these are some of the reasons why we haven't made a lot
of progress since. Defining conditionals and cacheability is non-trivial.

Best regards, Julian