- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 14:30:29 +0100
- To: Sawood Alam <ibnesayeed@gmail.com>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Am 04.11.2020 um 14:24 schrieb Sawood Alam: > ... > The question remains open, "how to express a successful SEARCH response > with an unsuccessful search result when returning an entity body is "unsuccessful" means "no results", right? > desired?" Does it warrant a new 2xx status code? I think this will be a > common situation for many people who would be willing to migrate their > GET-style searching where they could use a 404 to express it. Some > discussion and guidelines in the spec on this matter would be useful for > a more coherent adoption. > ... I don't see why this needs a new status code. You can use both 204 and 200, in the latter case, the media type of the response describes how it is to be interpreted. Best regards, Julian
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