Subject: IPP> PRO - draft-cohen-http-ext-postal-00.txt

From: Carl-Uno Manros <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:44:37 PST

FYI,

Josh Cohen has written his own little document arguing against the use of
POST in general, but taking IPP as an example.

Carl-Uno

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>	Title         : Don't Go Postal - An argument against
>			  improperly overloading the HTTP POST Method
>	Author(s)	: J. Cohen et al.
>	Filename	: draft-cohen-http-ext-postal-00.txt
>	Pages		: 
>	Date		: 16-Feb-98
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>As time goes on, more and more groups are extending HTTP's functionality.
In using HTTP, a decision is made to either use a new method name for new
functionality or to overload an existing one such as POST.  Our belief is
that in most cases, overloading existing method names, with POST as a
particularly troublesome example, is a bad idea.  We, as a group of
individuals, suggest that the default requirement for new HTTP
functionality must be to create a new method name.
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Carl-Uno Manros
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