bug#30154: [PATCH] web: Add http-patch.

[Arun Isaac]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> Since PATCH was removed from HTTP over 18 years ago, and is clearly not
> valid HTTP/1.1, I wonder if it makes sense to add this.

> Do you have a use case where you need it?

Yes, I was using the PowerDNS HTTP API, and some of their API requests
need the PATCH method.

https://doc.powerdns.com/md/httpapi/api_spec/

If you think it's not a good idea to include http-patch in guile, maybe
we can export define-http-verb and/or request so that it is easy for
users to create their own custom HTTP methods. WDYT?