Re: #332, was: Redirect fallback requirements

On 2012-01-26 01:34, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
> On 26/01/2012, at 6:30 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
>> On 2012-01-25 01:07, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> ...
>>> The question remains whether we should relax more of the SHOULD-level
>>> requirements on response payloads. At least some of them seem fishy (not
>>> necessarily the 3xx ones). Will send separate mail later this week.
>>> ...
>>
>> Here we go; excerpts from P2 Section 7:
>>
>> 7.2.2.  201 Created
>>
>>    The request has been fulfilled and has resulted in a new resource
>>    being created.  The newly created resource can be referenced by the
>>    URI(s) returned in the payload of the response, with the most
>>    specific URI for the resource given by a Location header field.  The
>>    response SHOULD include a payload containing a list of resource
>>    characteristics and location(s) from which the user or user agent can
>>    choose the one most appropriate.  ...
>>
>> This seems fishy. In particular it makes little sense for PUT->2
>
> +1. Downgrade to prose?
> ...

-> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1516>

(s/SHOULD/can/)

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:21:20 UTC