[whatwg] HTTP Forms extension specification

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Oct 14 13:04:24 PDT 2013


On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Cameron Jones wrote:
> 
> http://cameronjones.github.com/form-http-extensions/index.html

On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Cameron Jones wrote:
> 
> The motivations are the same which support declarative over imperative 
> programming, access to the HTTP protocol methods and headers (ETags, 
> versioning), greater flexibility over payload binding and the ability to 
> avoid using cookies for session continuation.

Can you elaborate? What are the end-user use cases that this proposal 
would enable, that are not possible today?

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