You are right about those things, and some of the proposed solutions (that one and others). It look to me PATCH is actually better; perhaps one of the patch fo

You are right about those things, and some of the proposed solutions (that one and others). It look to me PATCH is actually better; perhaps one of the patch formats can be a partial patch, for example if the Content-Type of the PATCH request is application/partial-content-patch then the first line of the body is the contents of the Content-Range header. In my opinion, this look better to me than the other replies to the message that this message is in reply to (although I admit anything I write may be mistaken; I am not perfect).