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Investigate the usage of PATCH #4

Closed ioggstream closed 5 years ago

ioggstream commented 5 years ago

About PATCH

1- PATCH is not in http 723x 2- PATCH media type should be something like https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7396 because servers SHOULD NOT assume PATCH semantics for generic media types that don't define them, such as "application/xml" or "application/json". Doing so will cause interoperability issues, because the semantics of PATCH become specific to that resource, rather than general. 3- it's difficult to use patch + checksums, like @LPardue said

Hypothesis

1- warn people about PATCH+Digest 2- don't forbid PATCH+Digest

LPardue commented 5 years ago

I'd like to understand more from implementers and users of PATCH. On the one hand it seems like it could be useful to validate the PATCH request body before applying it to the resource, on the other hand I don't know if the current expression of Digest support that use.

ioggstream commented 5 years ago

moved to https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/853