The Well-Formed WebExploring the limits of XML and HTTPThe HTTP verb PUT under Apache: Safe or Dangerous- August 23, 2003 "Is the HTTP verb PUT under Apache safe or dangerous" This is a question I come across often, and have now run into it twice in the work on Atom. So is it safe The answer is maybe. Here are two such examples: Using DELETE and PUT may be the "right thing to do" in an ideal world, but the fact of the matter is that a lot -- if not the vast majority -- of webservers do not allow these operations. If anyone knows of a newer article describing HTTP PUT with apache, I would be...http://wellformedweb.org/news/PUT_SaferOrDangerous Six Plus One- August 3, 2003 Previously I talked about the six different places there are to store information in an HTTP transaction. This is slightly misleading. To review, the six places are: Request URI Request Headers Request Content Response Status Code Response Headers Response Content This is slightly misleading because the URI is listed as a single storage location. This isn't the best characterization, as it really contains two different sets of information: the path, and the query...http://wellformedweb.org/news/SixPlusOne |