- From: Hayes, Mark <Mhayes@verisign.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:48:13 -0800
- To: www-xkms@w3.org
> From: Stephen Farrell [mailto:stephen.farrell@baltimore.ie] > > Joseph asked: > > "The Service SHOULD return a requested data element if it > is available. > > The Service MAY return additional data elements that were > not requested. > > In particular, the service MAY return data elements > specified in the > > request with the response." On what basis wouldn't the > service return > > the data asked of it? Would this mean the client would > imply the value > > doesn't exist, or some "binding" is invalid, or only indeterminent? > > If that's a quote, I think it needs rephrasing, but I kind of > like the idea that the server can give back more than was asked > of it. What do others think? (esp if there's someone who's only > writing client code) As a service implementor this makes my life easier, but from a resource constrained client's perspective I think giving the client control over the size of the message may be pretty important. mark
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