- From: Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@subbu.org>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:45:38 -0700
- To: nathan@webr3.org
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
Since the action that the client asked for will not be complete at the time of returning the response and since the server can't guarantee (I am assuming this based on the description of the flow in the example below) that the request will be processed without an error, why not return a 202 in stead? Subbu On Mar 13, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Nathan wrote: > Hi All, > > Can I use a 204 No Content to indicate that a resource is known but > currently does not have a representation (or another resource which > describes it)? > > example: > I have a resource which is a conceptual map to "me"; I have assigned a > URI to that resource, am in the process of creating a document which > describes me, and when I am done I will 303 See Other to the document > from the resource which is a conceptual map to "me". > > In the interim what status code can I use to say that the resource is > known, does not have a representation of its own that can be transferred > by the server over HTTP, another resource is not know that is > descriptive of said resource & the resource identifier is not to be used > for anything else. > > I've fully checked through all status codes, including the 4xx's but > can't find any to use, and 204 No Content seems to fit the best as far > as I can tell. > > Many Thanks, > > Nathan >
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