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Re:Microsoft REST API Guidelines by thephyber on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:36PM (#21612055)
> So why were they in the original HTTP spec if they weren't supported by original HTTP agents?

Bad assumption.[1]

HTTP/1.0 spec (1996) defined GET, POST, and HEAD.[2]

HTTP/1.1 spec (1997) defined all of the other, newer methods.[3]

> supported by original HTTP agents

The first web browsers I know about were Mosaic (1993) and Netscape Navigator (1994) predating the HTTP/1.0 RFC.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41411152/how-many-http-v...

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-5.1.1

[3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068#section-9

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Re:Microsoft REST API Guidelines by yxhuvud on Saturday November 23, 2019 @02:29AM (#21612931)
What I still don't understand is why they didn't add support for them to forms.
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