Re: Issue #12 proposed resolution

Obviously, we might have something to say about 3xx status codes, in
the light of more recent discoveries ;)

Cheers,



On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:00:02AM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
> 
> Generally, +1
> 
> Comments - 
> 
> I'd argue against including 3xx status codes; if we don't have
> anything SOAP-specific to say about them, why say anything at all?
> Otherwise, we're just re-documenting 2616, et al.
> 
> Including 415 is a bit jarring... Henrik's proposed binding says
> nothing about encapsulation, and REQUIRES the soap envelope to be the
> whole content of the message-body. I had thought that this was
> because we'd consider bindings that use encapsulation to be separate
> from this one. In any case, we need to rationalise these.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:11:33AM -0400, christopher ferris wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > Here is the amended section 6.3 of Part 2 regarding HTTP status codes
> > and the default HTTP binding as we discussed on this week's con-call.
> > 
> > Some on the call expressed an interest in seeing the text before
> > approving it. Also as discussed, I have removed section 6.3.2 regarding
> > 3xx status codes and provided a note which cites its status within the WG
> > as being unresolved.
> > 
> > As agreed on the call, I have removed reference to 201, 203, 205 and
> > 206. I have also changed the SHALL to a MAY in regards to 405 and
> > I have modified 500 to reflect its use for cases other than those described
> > in section 6.3.2 (4xx Client).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 6.3 SOAP HTTP Response
> > 
> >         SOAP over HTTP as defined for this default binding follows the semantics 
> > 	of the HTTP Status codes for communicating status information in
> >         HTTP. 
> > 
> > 6.3.1 HTTP 2xx Successful
> > 
> >         A 2xx status code indicates that the request, including the SOAP message 
> > 	component, was successfully received, understood, and accepted by
> >         the receiving SOAP processor. 
> >                 - A 200 OK status SHALL be used to communicate that a SOAP message is 
> > 		being conveyed within the entity body of the HTTP response.
> >                 The response SOAP message SHALL be implicitly correlated with the 
> > 		request SOAP message sent in the HTTP POST operation. 
> >                 - A 202 Accepted status MAY be returned by the server to indicate 
> > 		that the request SOAP message has been received, but has not been
> >                 processed. 
> >                 - A 204 No Content status SHALL be used to communicate that the SOAP 
> > 		message has been successfully processed by the SOAP application. As 
> > 		stipulated in [5], the 204 response MUST NOT include a message body.  
> > 
> > 6.3.2 HTTP 4xx Client Error
> > 
> >         In general, a SOAP HTTP client SHOULD be prepared to handle any of the 4xx 
> > 	class of HTTP status codes. However, the following status codes
> >         have specific meaning within the context of this SOAP binding to HTTP. 
> >                 - A 400 Bad Request status SHALL be returned in the event that the 
> > 		SOAP message contained within the body of an HTTP request message
> >                 is not well formed XML or in the case where a SOAP envelope was expected 
> > 		in the body of the HTTP POST request and none was present. 
> >                 - A 405 Method Not Allowed status MAY be returned in the event that the 
> > 		method specified in the HTTP request is not POST. As specified in RFC2616, 
> > 		the HTTP response MUST include an Accept header that includes at least POST. 
> >                 - A 415 Unsupported Media Type status code SHALL be returned in the 
> > 		event that the encapsulation mechanism used for the SOAP message in the 
> > 		HTTP request is unsupported by the server. 
> > 
> > 6.3.3 HTTP 5xx Server Error
> > 
> >         If an error occurs while processing a SOAP HTTP message, that is not covered
> > 	by any of the conditions expressed above in section 6.3.2, the SOAP HTTP server 
> > 	MUST issue an HTTP 500 "Internal Server Error" response and include a SOAP 
> > 	message in the response containing a SOAP fault (see section 4.4) indicating 
> > 	the SOAP processing error. 
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > NOTE: The following section regarding 3xx HTTP status codes is
> > still a topic of debate among members of the WG. The question at hand
> > is whether or not the SOAP1.2 specification should provide any guidance
> > as to the fact 3xx status codes have no SOAP specific meaning in the
> > context of a SOAP processor that uses this default HTTP binding, or whether
> > this section should be removed and nothing be said about 3xx status codes.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 6.3.2 HTTP 3xx Redirection
> > 
> >         No SOAP specific behavior is associated with the 3xx status codes. A SOAP client 
> >         SHOULD be prepared to receive and process a 3xx status code as defined in RFC2616 
> >         section 10.3. 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> 
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> Mark Nottingham
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>  
> 

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