[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (ODATA-462) Support for HTTP verb tunnelling is essential because client libraries may not support PATCH

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Support for HTTP verb tunnelling is essential because client libraries may not support PATCH
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                 Key: ODATA-462
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-462
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: OData Protocol 
    Affects Versions: V4.0_WD01
            Reporter: Evan Ireland


Some client libraries (e.g. HttpURLConnection in JDK 1.7) don't support PATCH, e.g. see this stack trace:

java.net.ProtocolException: Invalid HTTP method: PATCH
    at java.net.HttpURLConnection.setRequestMethod(HttpURLConnection.java:428)

To ensure maximum interoperability with clients (and not force clients to use PUT rather than PATCH), we should require OData services to support HTTP verb tunnelling.

See X-HTTP-Method in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd541471.aspx


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