Re: DELETE and 410 Gone

On Aug 25, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Alexandre Morgaut wrote:
> On 25 août 2011, at 22:56, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> 
>> The resource is the mapping over time, and hence can't
>> be deleted.
> 
> it can't be deleted but it's up to the server to return a 404 (Not Found) or 410 (Gone) status information to preserve privacy, or on other side provide more informations ;-)

The server can do whatever it wants to do, including telling the
client okay to the DELETE and then creating a new representation for
that resource a minute later.  Whether or not that makes sense
depends entirely on the meaning of that resource -- not HTTP.

....Roy

Received on Thursday, 25 August 2011 21:24:45 UTC