- From: Andreas Kuckartz <a.kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 30 Jul 2014 11:34:25 +0200
- To: "Ruben Verborgh" <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>
- Cc: public-hydra@w3.org
Ruben Verborgh: >> "The 4xx (Client Error) class of status code indicates that the client >> seems to have erred." >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5 >> >> An empty page or fragment is (normally) not a result of an error. Any >> 4xx code therefore is (normally) inappropriate. > > Depends on how you look at it. > > Client: "Give me the fragment with selector ?x rdf:type ex:Alien." > Server: "You asked for something that didn't exist. That's an error." > > In other words, 4xx errors are those that only a client can fix. > And indeed, the client can fix by asking a different fragment. Well, I think that it is perfectly legitimate and not erroneous to ask a server to provide a set of all aliens. And in this concrete case the server very likely _can_ provide a non-empty set by using improved SETI techniques ! Cheers, Andreas
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