Re: 209 No Content vs. application/empty

Sorry, yes, I managed to confuse myself. My only excuse is insanity :-)
... I any case, the question is more regarding the use of the Prefer
header to request no-content and not the 209 response.

- James

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On mån, 2007-10-01 at 08:00 -0700, James M Snell wrote:
>> Mark Nottingham has suggested that rather than inventing a new Accept
>> header and 209 No Content response type, it might be better to create a
>> new media type that indicates the absense of content and use Accept to
>> indicate the preference.
> 
> Now I am confused.. wasn't 209 supposed to return the entity as such?
> There is alread "204 No Content" for empty responses if you only want to
> return meta data (relevant headers)..
> 
> Regards
> Henrik