Bruce Stephens wrote:

> "Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> writes:
>
>> PUT isn't even part of HTTP, but rather of its extension WebDAV.
>
> It's less commonly used than GET, but it's surely part of HTTP.


At least for HTTP 1.0 this is wrong. Quoting RFC1945:

| These appendices are provided for informational reasons only -- they
| do not form a part of the HTTP/1.0 specification.
| [...]
| D.1.1 PUT

That is, one should expect an error 400 and not just 501.