HackerPapers

arXiv:1405.2330cs.NI

Support for Various HTTP Methods on the Web

Sawood Alam, Charles L. Cartledge, Michael L. Nelson

Early discovery. Linked by one identifiable commenter. This paper is outside the main ranking; a mention is not an endorsement.

Abstract

We examine how well various HTTP methods are supported by public web services. We sample 40,870 live URIs from the DMOZ collection (a curated directory of World Wide Web URIs) and found that about 55% URIs claim support (in the Allow header) for GET and POST methods, but less than 2% of the URIs claim support for one or more of PUT, PATCH, or DELETE methods.

arXiv comments
16 pages, 6 figures, and 11 tables
Journal reference
DOI
Subjects
cs.NINetworking and Internet Architecture cs.DLDigital Libraries

On Hacker News

Linked by 1 identifiable commenter in 1 comment across 1 thread, from Sep 2017 to Sep 2017.

Comments linking this paper, per year.

Discussed in comments1 thread

  1. Optionsbleed – HTTP OPTIONS method can leak Apache's server memory 1 comment

    • I will leave here the link of our 2014 paper, "Support for Various HTTP Methods on the Web" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.2330.pdf) for the reference. The issue is described in section 5.3 of the paper.

      ibnesayeedView on HNParent context

Submitted to Hacker News

Connected through shared HN threads, not inferred similarity or a recommendation.