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Bug 22695 - Missing HTTP verbs
Summary: Missing HTTP verbs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10671
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2013-07-16 14:51 UTC by Pierre Thierry
Modified: 2013-07-17 13:49 UTC (History)
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Description Pierre Thierry 2013-07-16 14:51:22 UTC 
The method and formmethod  attributes only allow for GET and POST HTTP methods, but PUT and DELETE would also be valid methods for a form. There is no reason a server should not be able to serve forms with these methods.

Their absence in HTML also means that an HTTP REST service using PUT and DELETE cannot adequately describe its interface by HTML, which defeats HATEOAS.
Comment 1 Pierre Thierry 2013-07-16 15:16:55 UTC 
See https://github.com/kephas/html/tree/verbs for a (as of yet incomplete) proposal.
Comment 2 Julian Reschke 2013-07-16 15:31:25 UTC 
This is a duplicate of Bug 10671.
Comment 3 Pierre Thierry 2013-07-17 13:49:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10671 ***