Collections: MKCOL

• The MKCOL method creates a new collection

• MKCOL can be invoked with a request body

  • No request body: empty collection is created
  • Request body: media-type specific results
    • primarily to reserve body for future capability

• Benefits:

  • a simple method is used to create a collection
  • MKCOL method avoids problems with adding collection creation semantics to PUT

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