[Zope3-dev] DISCUSS: Correct sequence for PUT

[Paul Everitt]

You're right, I wasn't clear.  It's only when the server tells the 
client (with a 301 status) that the Location header must be used.  (I 
think, at least.  The use of SHOULD in 10.3.2 muddies the water, I 
think the SHOULD only applies to HEAD, but it is MUST when doing a PUT.)

Interestingly, Apache/mod_dav chooses to return a Location in the 
response, even for 201 Created status codes.  I think that was my 
mistake, thinking that Apache/mod_dav behavior equated to the standard. 
:^)

--Paul

On Thursday, Feb 27, 2003, at 14:59 Europe/Paris, Jim Fulton wrote:

> Paul Everitt wrote:
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> ...
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>> 2) I'm not sure Zope 3 is doing the PUT correctly.  I did a PUT of a 
>> new resource, and RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) Section 9.6 says that a status 
>> code of 201 should be returned.  Also, the server should return a 
>> Location: header with the URI of the newly created resource.
>> Perhaps I'm reading 9.6 incorrectly?
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> I don't see any mention of setting a Location header in section 9.6.
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> I'm looking at RFC 2616, dated June 1999.
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> Jim
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