Re: Should Web Services be served by a different HTTP n+1?

HTTP is a Session/Presentation Protocol

TCP is a Transport Protocol.


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>wrote:

> On 2013-01-24 21:34, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com
>> <mailto:nico@cryptonector.com>**> wrote:
>>
>>     On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Julian Reschke
>>     <julian.reschke@gmx.de <mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de>**> wrote:
>>      > On 2013-01-24 04:18, Grahame Grieve wrote:
>>      >> What would be right http status code to use? It's a client
>>     error, right?
>>      >> The nearest appropriate status code would be 422, but I'm not sure
>>      >> whether that can be used outside webdav. Either way, there's a
>> bunch
>>      >
>>      > It can.
>>      >
>>      > [...]
>>      >
>>      > Augmenting error handling for web services is an interesting
>>     topic. See
>>      > prior proposals about Link relations, or a JSON typed response
>>     body format
>>      > for 4xx/5xx.
>>
>>     I've seen APIs that handle errors in JSON-encoded response bodies,
>>     including one that always returns success in HTTP but errors in the
>>     response body, which is kinda weird, but if none of the HTTP status
>>     codes make sense...  (that was the author's defense).
>>
>>
>> It makes perfect sense from a layering perspective.
>>
>> In an RPC call I probably want HTTP errors to be strictly limited to
>> reporting network failures. 'entry not found' is a completely different
>> result from 'machine is down'
>>
>> entry not found is arguably a successful transaction that returned an
>> empty list of results.
>>
>
> In that case you are (ab)using HTTP as transport protocol.
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
>


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