[ACTION-436] The use of HTTP 501 (LC-2556)

Dear all, 

this is a draft for an answer to Matthew Seaborn regarding "The use of HTTP 501" [1]:

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Dear Matthew,

thank you very much for reviewing our document. Please excuse the delay in answering your request. We have discussed this issue during the 12th Face-to-Face meeting and agreed that the 501 status code does not fit our needs. In order to have a clear semantic, we have decided to declare our own status code, as follows:

- Numerical Code: 562
- Textual description: Property not supported
- Example: only a subset of GET methods for properties implemented

Please let us know, if you agree to our solution.

Best regards,
Florian

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What do you think? Is it ok?

Cheers.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-annotation/2011Aug/0031.html
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Received on Tuesday, 6 September 2011 10:08:12 UTC