[OSM-dev] DELETE + body not commonly implemented

[Noel Grandin]

I would think that library support would be less of an issue than proxy
support.

I know that subversion has ongoing hassles because they use an "unusual"
HTTP command (PROPFIND)
Every time my company changes ISP I have to log a request to get them to
fix their proxy.

Anyone know what the status is of "DELETE" support in internet proxies?

bvh wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:20:57PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>   
>> One of the bigger changes in the 0.6 API from an implementation
>> perspective for clients may well be the use of a content body on DELETE
>> requests. kleptog found that to be the most difficult part of
>> implementing the changeset/versioning support for JOSM, I think, and I
>> think that a number of libraries may make this more difficult than one
>> would first assume, since DELETE+body is rather unusual.
>>
>> There are two different ways to implement an alternative without
>> requiring changes to other code, neither of which would be particularly
>> difficult to implement, I don't think: 
>>  
>>  * Use ?query=string&args=forinfo
>>  * Use Version:/Changeset: headers.
>>     
> * Use DELETE /api/0.6/way/#id/#version
>
>   
>> Either of these will probably work in a wider variety of HTTP clients,
>> some of which explicitly don't support including data in a DELETE
>> 'natively'.
>>     
>
> And if they support it, it is likely a less well tested future with
> bigger possibility of bugs.
>
>   
>> What HTTP libraries are people using to talk to OSM? Do they easily
>> support DELETE with content body?
>>     
>
> Qt support this.
>
> cu bart
>
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