POST vs. PUT Re: [uf-rest] REST opacity and URL schemes.

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi Mark,

On Apr 24, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Can someone illustrate with what the messages might look like on  
> the wire? I'm not a Rails person...

I'm not good at writing HTTP headers, though here's some links that  
might help:

http://pics.livejournal.com/doc/protocol/tut.data.simple.bml
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/http-tut.html#creq

Even better, this very topic is being discussed right now on rest- 
discuss:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/messages/6207?threaded=1

Hopefully that will help shed some light on this (tricky) issue...

-- Ernie P.