- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:23:59 +0200
- To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Adrien de Croy wrote: > > FWIW > > I just tested what 3 browsers do on a 205 response both > > a) with an entity (scripted response to POST to set status to 205 from > 200). > b) as above with Content-Length: 0 > > IE ignores the 205, and shows the new entity for both cases > Chrome & FF don't show the new entity, nor clear the form for both cases > > none post any error or warning. > > Apologies to the good people at Opera, I didn't have a copy on hand to > test. In the meantime, Adrien provided me with a test URL for "empty entity", and I checked Opera (current and 10 beta); both behave as IE. > Since 205 is for resetting a form, and since therefore it's intended > audience is browsers, and since there's no apparent browser support for > it, perhaps 205 should go the way of 305. > ... Perhaps. Otherwise we probably should think about why it's not implemented. Maybe it isn't sufficiently clear from the description what it's good for? BR, Julian
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