On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:58:35AM +0200, Mario Ruggier wrote:
> Is it not the client that issues the GET or POST... or the DELETE. But,
> which web clients ever know when to do this? (The METHOD attribute of
> FORM only accepts GET and POST, at least for html 4...)

I think the hardcore REST people have their heads a little in the
clouds.  It's not possible to make most browsers use PUT or DELETE,
AFAIK.

> So, such a link_to means that all GETs are issued as POSTs, and
> translated to a GET by the server?  But that loses too much client
> functionality... the convenience of having a bookmarkable url, for
> example ?!?
>
> I must be missing something here.

The idea is to allow something like "