- From: Alexander Dutton <alexander.dutton@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:22:38 +0000
- To: Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>
- CC: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/11/11 16:19, Sam Johnston wrote: > Is it the client's fault for making onerous requests though, or > the server's for being unable or unwilling to satisfy them? I'm > more inclined to think that this is a server (5xx) issue. As Andy Seaborne points out in a post to another mailing list¹, RFC 2616 says that 5xx codes "indicate cases in which the server is aware that it has erred or is incapable of performing the request". Hence, a 5xx code would seem to fit (unless one differentiates between "incapable" and "unwilling"). Still, I'm not sure; it's equally easy to say argue that the client is being unreasonable in its demands. Yours, Alex ¹ <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2011Apr/0268.html> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk67CzcACgkQS0pRIabRbjAhCQCffzBWvb4olmOshlm1BoJLJEn9 j5QAn1blaH+NyxRd0nJApaWgz+KKzJZk =HH+7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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