From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: bug#30154: [PATCH] web: Add http-patch. Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:10:20 -0500 Message-ID: <87o9ldy9j7.fsf@netris.org> References: <20180118094310.11658-1-arunisaac@systemreboot.net> <87r2qckxyd.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517173818 9889 195.159.176.226 (28 Jan 2018 21:10:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:10:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: 30154@debbugs.gnu.org To: Arun Isaac Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 28 22:10:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1efuDI-0001z4-9o for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:10:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efuFI-0004s9-To for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efuFD-0004ri-1s for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:12:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efuF8-0003Fa-2S for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:12:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efuF7-0003FD-UO for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:12:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1efuF7-0004Fl-LV for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:12:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Mark H Weaver Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guile@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:12:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 30154 X-GNU-PR-Package: guile X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 30154-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B30154.151717386316284 (code B ref 30154); Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:12:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 30154) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Jan 2018 21:11:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46801 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1efuEB-0004Ea-Kx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:11:03 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:35188) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1efuE9-0004E5-Ft for 30154@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:11:01 -0500 Original-Received: from pool-72-93-27-251.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.93.27.251] helo=jojen) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1efuE2-0000OM-Eu; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:10:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Arun Isaac's message of "Sun, 28 Jan 2018 05:57:48 +0530") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-guile" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:8988 Archived-At: Arun Isaac writes: > Mark H Weaver 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