- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:51:22 -0800
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
> Assuming WebDAV would want to define a new 4xx status code -- how do I > find > out about which codes have been "taken"? Roy? I don't know what the status of the registry is now, but it was supposed to be IANA. The holdback was the lack of a registration process [meaning the lack of a volunteer with enough free time to write that boring task]. Larry might know the current state. Why don't you just respond with the status code of the first error, since otherwise you will need a 5xx as well. 207 is completely lame (and yes I did make a stink of it at the time). HTTP doesn't specify the contents of the message body -- a multi-response could have just as easily been done as 200/201 with a special media type specific to webdav. The client already knows it is performing a webdav action and intermediaries know it isn't cacheable (because of the method), so a parallel set of status codes isn't necessary. ....Roy
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