Re: CR123: Simultaneous presence of {http method} and {safe}

Fair enough.

You've won this week's prize of affection from the editors. :-)

JJ.

Jacek Kopecky wrote:
> Jean-Jacques, 
> as Jonathan has already mentioned, I believe, one can have a safe
> operation that uses POST. 
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> Safety is used for defaulting to GET so that you can have interfaceless
> bindings that nevertheless use GET for some operations. Such defaulting
> may even be incorrect in light of how much request data can be
> represented usefully and interoperably in a URI. There are practical
> limits to that.
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> I don't think it's useful to tie {http method} and {safe} more than they
> are tied now.
> Best regards,
> Jacek
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> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 14:51 +0100, Jean-Jacques Moreau wrote:
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>> I've implemented the current resolution for CR123.
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>> However, I think we need to do a little more. Indeed, currently:
>> - if both {http method} (or, in its absence, {http method default}) and 
>> {safe} are set, {http method} takes precendence, i.e. the value of the 
>> {safe} property is ignored.
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>> This could be an issue, for example if {http method}="POST" and 
>> {safe}="true".
>>
>> Two alternatives:
>> a. Indicate {http method} and {safe} cannot be present simultaneously.
>>
>> b. {safe} takes precendence over {http method} (as {http method} already 
>> takes precendence over {http method default}).
>>
>> There's some appealing symmetry in b., but a. may be straigther.
>>
>> JJ.
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