- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:54:27 +0200
- To: Ken Murchison <murch@andrew.cmu.edu>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 2013-04-30 16:46, Ken Murchison wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:07:49 +0200, Julian Reschke wrote: >> On 2013-04-23 05:47, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> >> > * 3.1 "...instead they MUST respond with the 412 (Precondition >> Failed) status code." This is too strong; e.g., what if >> authentication is needed? Suggest an "unless..." clause allowing other >> error status codes. > > The first paragraph of Section 5 seems to address the case of 401 and > any other errors: > > "For each conditional request, a server must evaluate the request > preconditions after it has successfully performed its normal request > checks (i.e., just before it would perform the action associated with > the request method). Preconditions are ignored if the server determines > that an error or redirect response applies before they are evaluated. > Otherwise, the evaluation depends on both the method semantics and the > choice of conditional." > > The second sentence in Section 3 references Section 5 as far as when > preconditions are applied. This seems sufficient to me, but perhaps > that is because I have read the document several times and know what it > says in its entirety. Good catch! I agree that we can leave the sentence alone, then. Best regards, Julian
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