From: david-sarah Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:53:56 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs/webapi.rst: address Kevan's comments about use of 'delete' on ref #1104 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/pf/content/%22file:/frontends/configuration.txt?a=commitdiff_plain;h=00dccc43771aebff6a602a11f529818f551e75cb;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs/webapi.rst: address Kevan's comments about use of 'delete' on ref #1104 --- diff --git a/docs/frontends/webapi.rst b/docs/frontends/webapi.rst index ed591b62..35a2125d 100644 --- a/docs/frontends/webapi.rst +++ b/docs/frontends/webapi.rst @@ -88,9 +88,10 @@ URL) will return information about the object, such as metadata. GET operations are required to have no side-effects. PUT is used to upload new objects into the filesystem, or to replace an -existing object. DELETE is used to delete objects from the filesystem. Both -PUT and DELETE are required to be idempotent: performing the same operation -multiple times must have the same side-effects as only performing it once. +existing link or the contents of a mutable file. DELETE is used to unlink +objects from directories. Both PUT and DELETE are required to be idempotent: +performing the same operation multiple times must have the same side-effects +as only performing it once. POST is used for more complicated actions that cannot be expressed as a GET, PUT, or DELETE. POST operations can be thought of as a method call: sending @@ -935,8 +936,8 @@ Viewing A Directory (as HTML) browser, which contains HREF links to all files and directories reachable from this directory. These HREF links do not have a t= argument, meaning that a human who follows them will get pages also meant for a human. It also - contains forms to upload new files, and to delete files and directories. - Those forms use POST methods to do their job. + contains forms to upload new files, and to unlink files and directories + from their parent directory. Those forms use POST methods to do their job. Viewing/Downloading a File --------------------------