Re: Client Option for Strong References

>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

Received on Thursday, 8 October 1998 19:15:18 UTC