- From: David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:36:11 -0700 (PDT)
- To: John Kemp <john@jkemp.net>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
This is fun ;-:) ... following the logic below (I agree with the differentiation between 'a' and 'the'), the list in a 405 response should be THE list for that particular context ... While there may be other methods allowed, even in the given context, the server should never provide a different list for the same conditions. Dave Morris On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, John Kemp wrote: > > Mark Nottingham wrote: > > > > Not clear. My take (as a native American speaker who has been corrupted > > to speak en-au sometimes) is that 'the' implies that there is only one > > possible set. > > That's also my understanding as an en-gb native, corrupted to speak > ~en-us/gb. > > > > > However, I'm not that fussed about it; I'm happy to give it to the > > editors to decide (and I suspect they'll change it to 'the'). > > > > Unless someone has a good technical argument otherwise, and is > > passionate enough about it to hold us up, we'll let them decide. > > No engineering-based technical argument, but I do think there is a clear > semantic difference between 'a list' (one of a potential several) and > 'the list' (the only list). Using 'a' implies (to me at least) that the > server may maintain more than one list of allowed methods for the given > resource, and return a particular list given particular circumstances. > 'The' doesn't imply that to me. If we wish to imply by that sentence > that there is no single list of allowed methods per resource, and we > believe that anyone other than me will notice the difference, then using > 'a' would make sense. > > Or, we could just let the editors decide ;) > > Regards, > > - john > > > > > > > On 07/04/2008, at 9:39 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > > > >> sön 2008-04-06 klockan 13:57 +0200 skrev Julian Reschke: > >> > >>> I haven't heard any new feedback, so I propose that we go with this > >>> proposal. > >> > >> Was there consensus on "the list" -> "a list" change? > >> > >> I have no opinion on that change as of now, but it looks odd to me (but > >> may just be a language issue with English not being my native language) > >> > >> Regards > >> Henrik > >> > > > > > > -- > > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > > > > >
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