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

[Mark H Weaver]

Arun Isaac <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

I would prefer to export the 'request' procedure from (web client),
although it should probably be exported as a different name, maybe
'http-request'.  Would that work for you?

       Mark