Re: The use of HTTP 501

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:47:20 +0200
• To: Matthew Seaborn <Matthew.Seaborn@performgroup.com>
• CC: "IETF HTTP-WG (ietf-http-wg@w3.org)" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "public-media-annotation@w3.org" <public-media-annotation@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4E574F88.2050402@gmx.de>

On 2011-08-26 09:34, Matthew Seaborn wrote:
> The RFC has the following specification for 501: “The server does not
> support the functionality required to fulfil the request. This is the
> appropriate response when the server does not recognize the request
> method and is not capable of supporting it for any resource.”
>
> However the recent specification for API for Media Resources 1.0 (
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-mediaont-api-1.0-20110712/#api-status-codes) uses
> it in the case when*“*only a subset of GET methods for properties
> implemented*”. *
>
> **
>
> What is the modern accepted usage of this response code? Will the use
> specified in Media Resources spec confuse any clients if they return a
> 501 for some GET requests but not others?
> ...

Potentially. I consider this a bug in WD-mediaont-api.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 26 August 2011 07:47:57 UTC