{"draft":"draft-dusseault-http-patch-16","doc_id":"RFC5789","title":"PATCH Method for HTTP","authors":["L. Dusseault","J. Snell"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"10","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"IETF - NON WORKING GROUP","abstract":"Several applications extending the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)\r\nrequire a feature to do partial resource modification.  The existing\r\nHTTP PUT method only allows a complete replacement of a document.\r\nThis proposal adds a new HTTP method, PATCH, to modify an existing\r\nHTTP resource.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"March 2010","keywords":["[--------]","HTTP","PATCH","Hypertext Transfer Protocol"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC5789","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc5789"}