Clarification of http-409

• From: troels knak-nielsen <troelskn@gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:00:31 +0100
• To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <98b8086f1002031100wea3e73fp9621f386edbe51eb@mail.gmail.com>

Hi list.

There is a question on stack overflow [1] about the proper status code
for a response where the server side validation fails.
The best suggestions seems to be 400 or 409, but is 409 really the
proper response in this situation?

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2190945/what-http-response-code-for-rest-service-on-put-method-when-domain-rules-invalid

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troels

Received on Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:01:10 UTC