- From: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:46:00 +0100
- To: Bill Roberts <bill@swirrl.com>
- Cc: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
> Should we be returning 500 instead? Yes. To be more concise, I'd think that 503 [1] is appropriate. A 4xx is not appropriate IMHO, because [2]: [[ The 4xx class of status code is intended for cases in which the client seems to have erred. ]] Cheers, Michael [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.5.4 [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.4 -- Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland, Europe Tel. +353 91 495730 http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ http://sw-app.org/about.html On 28 Jun 2011, at 07:21, Bill Roberts wrote: > Looking for some advice from the community. If we time out a slow- > running SPARQL query, what is the most appropriate HTTP status code > to return to the client? We had been trying 408, but the problem > with that is that some clients (notably Firefox) take it on > themselves to keep retrying the request, which isn't really what we > want. > > Should we be returning 500 instead? > > Thanks > > Bill > >
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