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diff --git a/archives/extend/attachments/20130213/a992c0b6/attachment.html b/archives/extend/attachments/20130213/a992c0b6/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..efa8eb31 --- /dev/null +++ b/archives/extend/attachments/20130213/a992c0b6/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +<tt> +<html><br> +<head><br> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><br> +</head><br> +<body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br> +<div><br><br> +</div><br> +<div> In 6.1, and still in 8.0, there is some logic that surprised me, and I wanted to see if it was intentional, or if I'm missing something.</div><br> +<div><br><br> +</div><br> +<div> If I set up a POST such that it's a create, I get back a 303, rather than a 201, on successful create. This came as a bit of a surprise; I know from Webmachine, if it's a new resource being created, a POST will return a 201 (N11 to P11 in Webmachine's<br> + v3 diagram). </div><br> +<div><br><br> +</div><br> +<div> Is this intentional? The logic seems to be post_is_create/2 -> create_path/2 -> put_resource/3 -> choose_content_type/5 -> next/3 -> respond(_, _, 303). It may be that this is a better response, rather than a 201 with the location header, but it came<br> + as a surprise given web machine's behavior.</div><br> +<div><br><br> +</div><br> +<div> For background, I'm attempting to migrate some web machine code to Cowboy, which is serving a RESTful API to a Javascript client. The client is making CORS calls. Receiving a 303 and a Location header seemed to mean that the call was redirected before<br> + the client side code ever saw it (not sure what the browser was doing; I was expecting another request, but I wasn't quite lucid enough to check for that last night when working on it); a 201 allows me to examine the location. </div><br> +</body><br> +</html><br> + +</tt> |