June 2000
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PUT: Store the Entity-Body at the URL
When a client uses the PUT method, it requests that the included entity-body should be stored on the server at the requested URL. With HTML editors, it is possible to publish documents onto the server with a PUT method. Given an HTML editor with some sample HTML in the editor, suppose the user saves the document in C:\temp\example.html and publishes it to http://publish.ora.com/example.htm.
When the user presses the OK button, the client contacts publish.ora.com at port 80 and then sends:
PUT /example.html HTTP/1.1 Host: publish.ora.com Pragma: no-cache Connection: close User-Agent: SimplePublish/1.0 Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */* Content-type: text/html Content-Length: 182 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE></TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H2>This is a header</H2> <P>This is a simple html document.</P> </BODY> </HTML>
The server stores the client’s entity-body at /example.html and then responds with:
HTTP/1.0 201 Created Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 14:31:51 GMT Server: HypotheticalPublish/1.0 Content-type: text/html Content-length: 30 <h1>The file was created.</h1>
In practice, a web server may request authorization from the client. Most webmasters won’t allow any arbitrary client to publish documents on the server. When prompted with an “authorization denied” response code, the browser will typically ask the user to enter relevant authorization information. After receiving the information ...
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