- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 16:11:45 -0700
- To: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- cc: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
>I don't think this is a useful viewpoint. They are dangling in a very real >sense: if you do a GET on them, you get an error. That error is going to have >to be 404 (unless we define a new one and confuse all the existing clients), >which means that, as far as a client is concerned, the reference doesn't >exist--the client doesn't know that the 404 applies to the target. It does if the 404 response contains something specific to a reference, like a Ref-Type field. ....Roy
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