Question re HTTP 200 Response Code

Hi Mark,

I hope you have been well.

The W3C LDP Working Group [1] has been holding its 4th face-to-face meeting [2] this week.  One of the topics of discussion has been TimBL's comments [3] on the current editors draft of the LDP specification [4], specifically in regard to Section 4.10.2.3.

Tim wrote:
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4.10.2.3 303 lis a basically very unsatisfactory design because of the round trip. As this is a new spec, suggest defined 20X code meaning like a 303 but containing the representation of the thing 303d to. This has been found to a problem in LD. LDP can avoid it now.
Benefit: First page back to user in one less round trip.
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The WG has been discussing the possibility of a server returning a 200 (OK) instead of a 303, with the addition of a Location header to indicate that the server returned what the user wanted instead of what it requested.

Is that insane?  The current HTTP 1.1-bis draft [5] doesn't seem to preclude the use of a Location header with a 200 status code…

Thanks in advance for any comments you might have.

Regards,
Dave
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[1] http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/wiki/F2F4
[3] https://www.w3.org/2006/02/lc-comments-tracker/55082/ldp/2836
[4] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/ldpwg/raw-file/default/ldp.html
[5] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23#section-7.1.2

Regards,
Dave
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