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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: 30154@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30154: [PATCH] web: Add http-patch.
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:10:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9ldy9j7.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cu7tvv6ddyz.fsf@systemreboot.net> (Arun Isaac's message of "Sun,  28 Jan 2018 05:57:48 +0530")

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>
>> Since PATCH was removed from HTTP over 18 years ago, and is clearly not
>> valid HTTP/1.1, I wonder if it makes sense to add this.
>
>> Do you have a use case where you need it?
>
> Yes, I was using the PowerDNS HTTP API, and some of their API requests
> need the PATCH method.
>
> https://doc.powerdns.com/md/httpapi/api_spec/
>
> If you think it's not a good idea to include http-patch in guile, maybe
> we can export define-http-verb and/or request so that it is easy for
> users to create their own custom HTTP methods. WDYT?

I would prefer to export the 'request' procedure from (web client),
although it should probably be exported as a different name, maybe
'http-request'.  Would that work for you?

       Mark





  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-28 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-18  9:43 bug#30154: [PATCH] web: Add http-patch Arun Isaac
2018-01-26 23:22 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-01-28  0:27   ` Arun Isaac
2018-01-28 21:10     ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2018-01-29  8:33       ` Arun Isaac
2018-06-18 12:13         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-19  5:34           ` Arun Isaac
2018-06-21 17:27 ` bug#30154: [PATCH] web: Export http-request Arun Isaac
2018-06-23 21:31   ` Ludovic Courtès

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