- From: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:46:36 -0600
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
> 304 is the answer.
Thanks
> The text on precedence still needs work, but the conditions
> are tested before performing the requested method.
The current spec suggests a much more complex rule. The conditions are
ignored if it can be speculated that the request-sans-conditions would
fail. It's more like:
first, perform the request without conditions
if it fails, return the failure. (conditions ignored)
if it succeeds, test the conditions
if conditions hold, return success
if conditions fail, *rollback* the work done in first step
and return 416 or 304
It would be nice if it's simplified as you just stated
conditions are tested before performing the requested method.
Zhong Yu
Received on Monday, 16 January 2012 20:47:04 UTC