- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 23:56:08 +0200
- To: Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group <public-ldp-wg@w3.org>
On 23 May 2013, at 23:31, Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote: > ldp-ISSUE-74 (conditional requests required): How does a client know if conditional requests are required [Linked Data Platform core] > > http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/track/issues/74 > > Raised by: John Arwe > On product: Linked Data Platform core > > Split off from Issue-32. > > Are conditional requests Required for updates? (specification has a SHOULD) > > RFC 2616 tells a client how to know (after the fact) if a request was rejected because a pre-condition failed, but not in advance how to know if the server will fail every unconditional request because it implements section 4.4.2 " LDPR servers SHOULD require the HTTP If-Match header and HTTP ETags to detect collisions." with single-minded zeal. > > RFC 6585 addresses exactly this case, so we should use the status code it defines (428 Precondition Required). > > Proposal: update 4.4.2 to normatively reference RFC 6585 > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585#section-3 Seems reasonable, and worth documenting. > > Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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