Compounding of HTTP authoring protocol

A computing system for storing information to enable a device to perform a process for servicing requests, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• handle, at a server computing device, standard HTTP get requests, standard HTTP post requests, and standard HTTP options requests;
• handle, at the server computing device, requests that conform to an HTTP authoring protocol, the requests comprising put requests, copy requests, move requests, propfind requests, and proppatch requests;
• send an indicator to a client computing device indicating that the server computing device handles compounded authoring requests;
• receive, at the server computing device, the compounded authoring requests, each of the compounded authoring requests including a special content type header value that identifies a request as one of the compounded authoring requests and a special extensions header including a compounded verb of the HTTP authoring protocol;
• handle, at the server computing device, the compounded authoring requests that do not conform to the HTTP authoring protocol, the compounded authoring requests comprising put+proppatch requests and post+propfind requests;
• and
• perform put functionality and proppatch functionality responsive to a put+proppatch request, or performing post functionality and propfind functionality responsive to a post+profind request.

A method for servicing requests, the method comprising:

• handling, at a server computing device, standard HTTP get requests, standard HTTP post requests, and standard HTTP options requests;
• handling, at the server computing device, requests that conform to an HTTP authoring protocol, the requests comprising put requests, copy requests, move requests, propfind requests, and proppatch requests;
• sending an indicator to a client computing device indicating that the server computing device handles compounded authoring requests;
• receiving, at the server computing device, the compounded authoring requests, each of the compounded authoring requests including a special content type header value that identifies a request as one of the compounded authoring requests and a special extensions header including a compounded verb of the HTTP authoring protocol;
• handling, at the server computing device, the compounded authoring requests that do not conform to the HTTP authoring protocol, the compounded authoring requests comprising put+proppatch requests and post+propfind requests;
• and
• performing put functionality and proppatch functionality responsive to a put+proppatch request, or performing post functionality and propfind functionality responsive to a post+propfind request.