Re: draft-holtman-http-safe-00.txt

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:01:24 -0400


>>The I18N draft does not make POST use mandatory at all. A Safe header
>>could equally well be used to indicate that a GET-with-body result
>>can be cached/reused.
>
>	Yes, but as things *presently* stand in existing IETF RFCs
>and IDs, to use ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" the FORM will specify
>METHOD=POST. 

The "will" here implies a requirement, which I have not seen. There are
strong recommendations, yes, but no requirements.