Re: HTTP status for timed-out SPARQL query

I suck ... 

On 28 Jun 2011, at 10:38, Mischa Tuffield wrote:

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> On 28 Jun 2011, at 07:46, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
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>>> Should we be returning 500 instead?
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>> Yes. To be more concise, I'd think that 503 [1] is appropriate. A 4xx is not appropriate IMHO, because [2]:
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>> The 4xx class of status code is intended for cases in which the client seems to have erred.
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> Indeed 503 seems like the right thing™ to use, Yahoo's response codes may be a good place to look at an implementation of a webservice.

And here is the link to the BOSS documentation :

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/BOSSv2_FAQ.html 

Mischa

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> Mischa
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>> Cheers,
>> 	Michael
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>> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.5.4
>> [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.4
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>> On 28 Jun 2011, at 07:21, Bill Roberts wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> Should we be returning 500 instead?
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>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Bill
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