Re: Is 303 really necessary?

Dave,

On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 12:56 -0400, David Wood wrote:
> Hi all,

<snip>

> - Wide-spread mishandling of HTTP content negotiation makes it difficult if not impossible to rely upon.  Until we can get browser vendors and server vendors to handle content negotiation in a reasonable way, reliance on it is not a realistic option.  That means that there needs to be an out-of-band mechanism to disambiguate physical, virtual and conceptual resources on the Web.  303s plus http-range-14 provide enough flexibility to do that; I'm not convinced that overloading 200 does.
> 

No mud, yet. ;-)

But curious if you can point to numbers on support for 303s and
http-range-14? Might have enough flexibility but if not widely
supported, so what? 

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

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