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RE: property not found/resource not found

From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 18:16:41 -0800
Message-ID: <01BD4C50.AD464480.ejw@ics.uci.edu>
To: "'Jim Davis'" <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>, "w3c-dist-auth@w3.org" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org> 
On Tuesday, March 10, 1998 3:50 PM, Jim Davis [SMTP:jdavis@parc.xerox.com] wrote:
> How can I distinguish between the case where I do a PROPFIND on a resource
> that does not exist and the case where the resource exists but the property
> is undefined?  One way would be if the former returned 404, and only the
> latter returned a 207 Multustatus (with the 404 inside the response).

This is how I think WebDAV applications should differentiate between the two cases.

- Jim
Received on Tuesday, 10 March 1998 21:27:14 GMT

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