[10249] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: PUT method (& all it's siblings)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Long)
Fri Aug 23 16:02:26 1996
To: Kay Winkler <K.Winkler@gsi.de>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:33:32 +0200."
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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:50:44 -0700
From: Dave Long <dave@sb.aol.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
>My understanding of PUT Method is, that it is used for sending files
>to the Server e.g. exchanging Server Information or to publish
>documents.
>
>For Comunication and Action there are the two methods POST
>and GET.
>
>Has somebody tried the as well DELETE Method out of the specs?
Since we were busy implementing, and missed noticing that PUT and
DELETE had been dropped out of the HTTP/1.0 specs, the AOLserver
<http://www.aolserver.com/> handles PUT and DELETE requests.
As an example, AOLpress <http://www.aolpress.com/> uses these methods
(or their cousins, for <ftp://> URLs) to provide a combined editing/browsing
environment.
We used to provide a publically accessible server to demonstrate
these methods; however, our lawyers made us take it down. The software
itself is still free, so you can download it and try it on your
own system.
-Dave Long
Wir haben auch einen "mirror site" im Deutschland gehabt -- "LEO", ich denke.
