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Re: Web HTTP methods: symbols or strings?
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Mark H Weaver |
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Re: Web HTTP methods: symbols or strings? |
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Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:45:03 -0400 |
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Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:
> I've been looking at the web code, and while most (all?) of the older
> code assumes that HTTP methods will be symbols, the newer web/client.scm
> is written to assume that HTTP methods will be strings. It seems
> reasonably clear to me that client.scm should be fixed to produce
> symbols instead of strings.
I went ahead and pushed a fix for this to stable-2.0.
Mark
> The only thing I'm not sure about is whether we'll now have to support
> strings as HTTP methods, for backward compatibility.
>
> Thoughts?
> Mark