[Cosmo-dev] CMP POST /cmp/<username>/delete

[Mikeal Rogers]

On Jan 22, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Travis Vachon wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> Early in the 0.6 process we introduced POST /cmp/<username>/delete  
> as a synonym for DELETE /cmp/<username> to get around the fact that  
> some clients do not support the DELETE method.
>
> We have introduced an alternate solution to this problem, however,  
> in the form of the X-HTTP-Method-Override header, making POST /cmp/ 
> <username>/delete unnecessary.
>
> I'd like to propose that we remove POST /cmp/<username>/delete  
> before 0.6 We are not using it anywhere, and since it is not part  
> of an officially released version of CMP, I don't think deprecating  
> it for a release is necessary.
>
> Any thoughts? If I don't hear differently, I'll commit this change  
> tomorrow.

The tests I just wrote verify that POST works for all CMP PUT  
operations. I can change this easily but if we're doing this can we  
please completely remove the POST synonymous with PUT functionality  
from CMP.

I think it's easier for us to say "this is the one way you can do CMP  
operations with POST" rather than "all of these operations will work  
with POST except delete which you must do this way". It also makes my  
testing matrix ridiculous. At this point I don't think that we have  
to worry about backwards compatibility with previous CMP  
implementations, since ours is the only one.

-Mikeal