Re: 415 and Accept

On 5 Mar 2018, at 8:32 am, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> RFC 7694 explicitly permits the use of Accept-Encoding on a 415
> (Unsupported Media Type) response.  In doing so it says:
> 
>   Section 6.5.13 of [RFC7231] defines status code 415 (Unsupported
>   Media Type) to apply to problems related to both media types and
>   content codings.
> 
> Our friends over in ACME want to use Accept, but RFC 7231 only really
> describes the use of Accept for clients.  That seems like an
> oversight.  415+Accept seems like a very reasonable response to a
> request that included an unsupported media type.
> 
> Should I add this to the 723x-ter pile?

Yes, please.

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

Received on Monday, 5 March 2018 01:17:11 UTC