Re: Proposal: 205 Bodies [#88]

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