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Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> Mon, 04 January 2021 03:50 UTC

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:47:13 +1100
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
To: Roy Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
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On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, at 12:22, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> For every non-interoperable private implementation of partial PUT
> there are ten implementations that will simply store the partial entity
> several times. That's reality and it cannot be specified (post-1996)
> in an interoperable way other than to say "don't do that".

Yes, this is clearly the motivation for the existing spec text.  My question was whether you want to avoid using such absolute language.  Or is there generic text somewhere that says "some resources play fast and loose with this protocol, that's just how it is"?

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