Hi Mike, ... Ah, thank you! That helps enormously. So, the distinction is really about "where" the change happens, not so much "what" is being done? -- Ernie...
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Michael Walter
the_ceem
May 6, 2006 12:57 pm
They do once you "Cancel" the authentication dialog, right?...
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jay.aozon
May 6, 2006 12:55 pm
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Nic
nferrier_tap...
May 6, 2006 11:58 am
... Yes. Reading between the lines that's the specd behaviour: If the 401 response contains the same challenge as the prior response, and the user agent has...
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Julian Reschke
JulianReschke
May 6, 2006 10:47 am
... At least FF doesn't display the entity body until you leave the dialog box. Best regards, Julian...
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Nic
nferrier_tap...
May 6, 2006 10:35 am
... They all display the entity body don't they? The trouble is, you can't turn off the authentication dialog box. Nic...
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Julian Reschke
JulianReschke
May 6, 2006 9:46 am
... Yes. Are you aware of any mainstream browser that displays the content, though? Best regards, Julian...
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Dave Pawson
dpawson2000
May 6, 2006 9:29 am
... <grin/> You old pragmatist Mike. Nice one. That applies Elliottes approach (and Sandeeps). That'll do me. I'll make a change to the wiki along those lines....
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Yannick Loiseau
pioupiougroups
May 6, 2006 9:00 am
... You can include links to "forget password" or "create a account" in the body of the "401 Unauthorized" response...
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Mike Dierken
mdierken
May 6, 2006 4:58 am
Don't think in terms of create or update - think in terms of transfer. If the client knows the identity/destination of the resource - use PUT (or DELETE). If...
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Sandeep Shetty
sandeep.shetty@...
May 5, 2006 10:24 pm
Hey Dave, ... I guess Elliotte is saying the same thing as that snippet from 2616. The difference between PUT and POST is not one of CREATE and UPDATE. The...
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Walden Mathews
waldenmathews
May 5, 2006 9:41 pm
Dave, Maybe this is confusing because you have not framed it in the context of a use case. What are you trying to do? Walden ... From: "Dave Pawson"...
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Bill de hÓra
bdehora
May 5, 2006 8:46 pm
... I should qualify the unbridled arrogance. I think a cookie is a reasonable fall-back, given current browser UIs. So if if you want to do m10l, watch...
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Bill de hÓra
bdehora
May 5, 2006 7:27 pm
... ROTFL. For some definition of "work". Tools/internet options/languages/add. Then click more to stuff the set the order. Versus clicking a link to get to a...
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Elliotte Harold
elharo@...
May 5, 2006 5:51 pm
... Almost everyone does at first, myself included. It's a classic case of trying to understand something new by analogy with something you already understand...
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Elliotte Harold
elharo@...
May 5, 2006 5:35 pm
... Trivial: set your accept-language header to prefer French and set a client side CSS stylesheet that sets the background your want. These two problems were...
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Mark Baker
gonga_thrash
May 5, 2006 4:31 pm
I'm surprised Elliotte didn't provide a link to his awesome "POST vs. PUT" blog entry; ...
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Dave Pawson
dpawson2000
May 5, 2006 1:51 pm
... Multiple views of the same object Sandeep? The above (to me) looks almost like an application layer decision, with overtones of Elliottes perspective. It...
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Dave Pawson
dpawson2000
May 5, 2006 1:44 pm
... I totally missed that one. Thanks Elliotte. See ... I'm in good company :-) regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk...
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Sandeep Shetty
sandeep.shetty@...
May 5, 2006 10:52 am
Hey Dave, There was a time when I was confused about the same thing till I read this paragraph from section 9.6 [1] of RFC 2616 : "The fundamental difference...
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Bill de hÓra
bdehora
May 5, 2006 10:33 am
... Show me the site in French with a pale blue background. Remember that for me. No, I don't want to register. cheers Bill...
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Nic
nferrier_tap...
May 5, 2006 10:27 am
... Good point. Nic...
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Elliotte Harold
elharo@...
May 5, 2006 10:09 am
... or: /something/completely/different Remember: URL paths are opaque. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@... XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just...
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Elliotte Harold
elharo@...
May 5, 2006 10:06 am
... This is incorrect, though a common confusion. The difference is that POST means create a new resource at a server supplied URL. PUT means to create a new...
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Dave Pawson
dpawson2000
May 5, 2006 9:58 am
On 05/05/06, Nic <nferrier@...> wrote: Thanks Nic. Not sure I agree... but your logic is sound. Jons view is equally logical. The variants...
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Nic
nferrier_tap...
May 5, 2006 9:34 am
... No, other way round. rfc2616 says this about POST: The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a...
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Jon Hanna
hack_poet
May 5, 2006 9:25 am
... POST acts upon an existing resource. The effects of this are pretty limitless in terms of what it may do both to the existing resource, and other related...
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Dave Pawson
dpawson2000
May 5, 2006 9:10 am
At http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2004/12/01/restful-web.html Joe says So if you want to create a new resource, use POST. ..... To update a current resource, use...
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Nic
nferrier_tap...
May 5, 2006 8:44 am
... A cookie can be just like HTTP auth. I'm about to publish an article on this on onlamp.com - it's just taking longer than I thought because of other...
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Julian Reschke
JulianReschke
May 5, 2006 6:58 am
... From those HTTP related RFCs I've got XML versions for, I'm producing a compound index. So at least a subset of the codes can be found at ...
