Re: UWS 0.4

From: Paul Harrison <paul.harrison-at-manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:28:06 +0100

On 2008-06 -12, at 17:48, Patrick Dowler wrote:

> On 2008-6-11 23:42, Paul Harrison wrote:
>> The reason is a purely practical one - that HTML forms cannot send
>> DELETEs, so to accommodate this the POST to form with ACTION=DELETE
>> is
>> used to destroy the job also. This is actually a change from version
>> 0.3 where any POST to the job object would delete it after creation,
>> and was introduced to allow the scenario that you outline above.
>
> To clarify:
>
> It would be OK for a service to accept other POSTs directly to the
> job to
> supply various parameters (basically in multiple steps rather than
> all at
> once at job creation)?
>

As far as I am concerned it fits in with the pattern....

Cheers,

        Paul.

> UWS reserves POST with param ACTION=DELETE (equivalent to an http
> DELETE) to
> support simple (browser) clients.
>
> that sounds fine.
>
Received on 2008-06-13Z14:32:35