Subject: IPP> FW: MyPost vs. Post

From: Babak Jahromi <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 19:23:15 -0800

Seems like Win32 Internet APIs allows inventing a new HTTP method in the
client side as well.

>-----Original Message-----
>Sent:	Monday, February 24, 1997 7:15 PM
>To:	Babak Jahromi
>Subject:	RE: MyPost vs. Post
>
>In that case the answer is yes for WinInet. --
>When you call HttpOpenRequest(), the second argument is the verb which can be
>anything -- a GET, a POST, or whatever else you will pass to that function.
>--Wininet Development
>
>----------
>From: 	Babak Jahromi
>Sent: 	Monday, February 24, 1997 6:57 PM
>Subject: 	RE: MyPost vs. Post
>
>
>What I have in mind is to potentially define a new "post" command that both
>client and the server would understand and use.   Today Windows Internet
>clients (like the browser) use Wininet.dll APIs to talk to an HTTP server. So
>to invent a new HTTP method, ideally the client can tell the Wininet APIs to
>use this new custom method, and on the server side we can implement an ISAPI
>filter that horors the new method. 
>
>Babak
>