Subject: [Geopriv] HELD GET

From: "Thomson, Martin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:38:25 -0600

This document describes how to use HTTP GET with HELD.

This draft proposes a mechanism where HTTP GET is considered equivalent to a default HELD request.  Extra considerations for location URIs ensure that the request is both safe and idempotent by their HTTP definitions.

  <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-thomson-geopriv-held-get-00.txt>

The recommendations in HELD are useful for a client with a user at the helm, but automated clients have no means of detecting that the resource indicated by a URI is actually a HELD resource.  This is, of course, more useful if we decide not to mint a new URI scheme for dereferencing - my personally preferred option.

It also further reduces the cost of implementing HELD.

Cheers,
Martin

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