Re: Put/Get in Delphi

From: J French (erewhon_at_nowhere.uk)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:06:05 +0000 (UTC)

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:07:05 +0100, "Maarten Wiltink"
<maarten@kittensandcats.net> wrote:

>"J French" <erewhon@nowhere.uk> wrote in message
>news:423efc6f.103387077@news.btclick.com...
>[...]
>> May be I am wrong, but I have never heard of an HTTP put
>>
>> I would imagine that one POSTs the file to a pseudo HTML page that
>> knows what to do with the data.
>>
>> - there again - who knows nowadays
>
>You can't be wrong in not knowing things, right?

I am, fortunately, aware of my ignorance
- but not of its boundaries

>PUT is not so much a modern invention as something that was left
>out in the cold as the World Wide Web developed into a one-way
>medium. The first browser was an editor, not just a viewer, and
>HTTP was a two-way protocol.

That I did not know
- PUT would not have done the trick on its own
- unless it triggered a request ...

>HTTP expresses an association between a Resource and a (Uniform)
>Resource Locator. No fundamental difference between GET and PUT.

Well ....
- with GET you send a URL in 'command line'
- with PUT you send a URL and some 'parameters'
(not much difference as the URL is a potentially pseudo URL in both
cases)

POST turned up when PUT was 'putting' too much

I would be really surprized if file upload (rather than download) were
part of the early HTTP specs

- but I am often surprized.

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