- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 16:24:52 -0700
- To: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- cc: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
>> It does if the 404 response contains something specific to a reference, >> like a Ref-Type field. > >But we need references to work for downlevel clients which understand only >HTTP/1.1 GET and PUT. They do work. The only type of client that needs to know the difference between a nonexistent target of a direct reference and a nonexistent resource is a WebDAV authoring client. For the rest, 404 is sufficient. ....Roy
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