On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:12:03AM +0100, Edi Weitz wrote: : On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:00:49 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org wrote: : : > I did not see specifically if the other http methods PUT and DELETE : > are supported. : : Hunchentoot has no special support for GET and POST either, or for : MKCOL, PROPFIND, and so on. The only method that gets special : treatment right now is HEAD for obvious reasons. It is up to the : application programmer to support certain methods.
As long as it doesn't disallow them, that should be fine. Then I can just branch on each method within the general handler for that URL.
: > If not, is it correct to assume they could be easily added? : : Depends on the semantics you want to have. If for example you want to : write a WebDAV server, there remains quite a lot for you to do. : Believe me, I once wrote one... :)
Fortunately, it's not quite that bad. ;-) I use XMLHttpRequest with those 4 http methods for REST calls. Can that be supported without the level of work needed for a WebDAV server?
Jonathon McKitrick -- My other computer is your Windows box.