Re: Alt-Svc NOT_AUTHORITATIVE proposal

On 27 February 2014 10:18, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote:
> Ah, I see, thanks. Seems like 404 would cover this perfectly then, as
> there's no such thing as a "wrong server" (as all HTTP servers can
> accept requests for all URI), just a server that can't provide any
> representations of the identified resource.

All HTTP servers might be able to accept requests for all URIs, but
they aren't necessarily authoritative for them.  We want to avoid the
case where clients get confused by a response that says a resource
doesn't exist, where it might...were they to ask the right server.

Received on Thursday, 27 February 2014 18:32:53 UTC