UWS 0.4

[Patrick Dowler]

I find one part of the UWS a bit odd. It says that DELETE to the job resource 
deletes it (fine), but that a POST to that resource also deletes it. 

When one creates a job (POST to the job list) some parameters can be included 
(presumably service-specific params). I would have assumed that one could 
POST more params to the job resource itself and have them treated the same 
way (at last up until a POST to the phase resource to start it executing).

This would allow a client to, for example:

- POST to the job list (create a job, along with some parameters)
- GET the quote
- decide where the output should go (long quote == not my laptop :)
- POST to the job with dest=<something>
- POST to the phase

It also just doesn't seem RESTy that POST would delete something. Is there a 
reason for this? A good one?

curious,

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