[whatwg] Form submission

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sun Aug 22 04:28:31 PDT 2004


On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Olav Junker Kjær wrote:
> 
> If the method DELETE is used, should the form still be validated? I 
> would guess that validation etc. (steps 2-5 in section 5) should be 
> skipped.

The form is still validated.


> Does the "replace" attribute apply when PUT or DELETE is used?

Yes.


> it might be useful to have an "ignore" value for the replace attribute.

That would seem like poor feedback, no? If the author wants to do this, he 
can use the "204 No Content" response code.

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