RE: Core versioning issues and nits

>
>    From: "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@xythos.com>
>
>    In fact, it's not so much that that URLs are scarce, but
> that good user
>    interfaces are difficult.  How do I explain what URL namespaces are
>    reserved for special-purpose resources like VRs, VHRs, or
> (to take an
>    example from another realm) principals?  At least you
> could give me a
>    good error message to return when users try to create new
> resources or
>    collections in reserved namespaces!
>
> I think that a 405 status return, along with an Allow header
> indicating
> what MKxxx method would succeed in this space (if any) gives you
> all the information you can really use.

How about "DAV:reserved-namespace" as a status message, with 405 as the
response code?

lisa

Received on Monday, 5 February 2001 17:59:40 UTC