Link: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/17
Origin: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg-old/2002JanApr/0024.html
Component: p2-semantics
The description of POST was broadened over time, and is not clear. It is clarified by the following changes in Section 9.5:
The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line.
should be:
The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as data to be processed by the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line.
Likewise:
The actual function performed by the POST method is determined by the server and is usually dependent on the Request-URI. The posted entity is subordinate to that URI in the same way that a file is subordinate to a directory containing it, a news article is subordinate to a newsgroup to which it is posted, or a record is subordinate to a database.
should be:
The actual function performed by the POST method is determined by the server and is usually dependent on the Request-URI.
Fixed in [78]