[Mono-dev] HttpWebRequest method patch

[Gert Driesen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-devel-list-
> bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Atsushi Eno
> Sent: woensdag 31 januari 2007 17:44
> To: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] HttpWebRequest method patch
> 
> Gert Driesen wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert Jordan" <robertj at gmx.net>
> > To: <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
> > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 12:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] HttpWebRequest method patch
> >
> >
> >
> >> Hi Atsushi,
> >>
> >> Atsushi Eno wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, it is very good idea to report this BUG to Microsoft and
> >>> let them fix it. I will do that unless someone points out that
> >>> our (a couple of lingr users') interpretation is wrong.
> >>>
> >>> I rather want judgement of the spec situation: whether HTTP methods
> >>> like "posT" must retrieve request/response stream like POST.
> >>>
> >> Since Apache & IIS are both accepting case-insensitive method names
> >> it's a good idea to switch to POST-like behavior in HttpWebRequest,
> >> as implied by your patch.
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >
> > Atsushi, have your decided against changing our implementation to
> match that
> > of MS ?
> >
> No, as I haven't removed the related test that you added without any
> agreement.

Ok, no problem. I was just asking.

> (If you are saying that marking test as [Ignore] is a decision while
> adding test without any agreement is not a decision, it is very
> strange.)

If you want to make a big deal out of adding a test (which helped to find
out how MS exactly behaves, and which was marked NotWorking), then please go
ahead.

Gert