• From: "Scott, Christopher" <christopher.scott@f...>
• To: "Scott, Christopher" <christopher.scott@f...>, "Anne Thomas Manes" <atmanes@g...>, <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:17:21 -0400

> 1. Take, for instance, the State element and the Whatsists.  How would
the client know if you could POST to the "State", but not PUT, and only
GET and PUT "Whatsists"?

A quick reply to myself: after some googling I found a possible
solution: expose the http OPTIONS method at each resource.  It's
out-of-band in regard to the actual representation of the resource, but
it seems that this may be the way to go.

For example an OPTIONS ./State would return 

GET 
POST 
OPTIONS

~Chris

• References:
  • RESTful XML for updates?
    • From: "Scott, Christopher" <christopher.scott@f...>
  • Re: RESTful XML for updates?
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
  • Re: RESTful XML for updates?
    • From: Anne Thomas Manes <atmanes@g...>
  • RE: RESTful XML for updates?
    • From: "Scott, Christopher" <christopher.scott@f...>