Re: Alt-Svc NOT_AUTHORITATIVE proposal

Such a new status code might provide a good signal for negatively updating
the Alt-Svc cache a user-agent is probably maintaining.


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Martin Thomson
<martin.thomson@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>