Re: Proposed HTTP SEARCH method update

On 2015-04-26 19:42, Ashok Malhotra wrote:
>
> On 4/26/2015 12:20 PM, henry.story@bblfish.net wrote:
>> For example, my intuition that SEARCH returns a partial representation
>> has led us  to discover ( thanks to Amos Jeffries ) that we should look
>> to adopt  a 206 status code as defined in RFC 7233.
>>
>> Does this mean that example 4.1 from draft-snell [1] where the SEARCH
>> returns
>> a 200 is wrong? Or is it correct that SEARCH is not cacheable other than
>> via a 206 route? Is this something one can add later, or may not
>> specifying
>> this now lead to problems further down the road?
> Good question, since it can be argued that Range Requests bear some
> relation to SEARCH!
> Julian?

Right now I neither see how a SEARCH response is necessarily a partial 
representation of the request resource, nor any relation to HTTP Range 
requests.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Sunday, 26 April 2015 19:03:04 UTC