- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:05:27 -0700
- To: dug@us.ibm.com, WEBDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Davis [mailto:dug@us.ibm.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 6:16 AM > To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org > Subject: [Spam?] mutlistatus xml > > > Hope this isn't a stupid question but do all responses from a WebDAV > server have to be 207 Multi-status Responses? > -Dug This is actually a question that comes up fairly frequently. All responses from a WebDAV server do *not* have to be 207 Multi-Status responses. In cases where the scope of a method invocation is a whole, single resource (or for MOVE and COPY, a single source-destination pair), then use of regular HTTP response codes is encouraged. For example, if I perform a successful UNLOCK, then I would expect to receive a 204 No Content response (as is shown in section 7.11.1). Similarly, sections 7.10.8 and 7.10.9 show an example of a LOCK on a single resource where the response is a 200 OK. Section 7.9.5 shows a MOVE of a single resource, where the response is a 201 Created, instead of a Multi-Status, and section 7.8.6 shows a COPY with a 204 No Content response. - Jim
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