Re: Informal Last Call for HTTP Preference Header

On 01.02.2012 12:58, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> --On January 31, 2012 1:28:17 PM -0800 James Snell 
> <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just posted an update for the HTTP Prefer Header altering the
>> intended status from "Informational" to "Standards Track". No
>> additional changes were made. As I have not received any further
>> technical input on the specification, I am issuing an *Informal* 
>> Last
>> Call for comments before I request that it be kicked up the chain 
>> for
>> review.
>>
>> Mark Nottingham has agreed to serve as the document shepherd for
>> helping to move it forward.
>>
>> Current Draft: http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-snell-http-prefer-11.txt
>
> Can you clarify the meaning of an ETag header returned in the
> response to a PUT with a Prefer:return-representation header. Would
> that ETag refer to the resource whose representation is being
> returned?

If it does not something is badly broken. HTTPbis part 4 section 2.3:
"
2.3. ETag

    The ETag header field provides the current entity-tag for the
    selected representation.
"

> If so, could we please include ETag in the example. If not,
> then we really need a way to get the actual ETag for the returned
> representation - otherwise Prefer:return-representation is not that
> useful.

+1.

AYJ

Received on Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:40:00 UTC