BIND and HTTP status codes

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:44:39 +0200
• To: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <48DCD937.8070109@gmx.de>

Hi,

while implementing WebDAV BIND in Jackrabbit [1] (the Apache Java 
Content Repository Reference Implementation), my colleague Manfred 
Baedke noticed that the spec currently micro-manages HTTP status codes: 
for instance, for a successful BIND it requires status codes of 200 or 
201, while - from an HTTP point of view - a 204 should be acceptable as 
well.

Proposal: rephrase the text so that other success codes are acceptable 
as well, or remove the normative language completely, point to RFC2616, 
and rely on examples.

BR, Julian

[1] <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1733>

Received on Friday, 26 September 2008 12:45:23 UTC