- From: Kaushik Sridharan <kaushik@ruksun.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 20:14:09 +0530
- To: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Hello all, I have a question regarding WebDAV responses -- Are responses for specific methods required to be multistatus? I suppose GET or HEAD requests will not result in a multistatus reponse; the RFC even gives examples for LOCK where the response is a 200 OK. But can other requests like PROPFIND result in a non-multistatus response, say in a situation where a single resource is being queried? The PROFIND section 8.1 in the RFC says that "servers MUST support returning a response [..] that contains a multistatus XML element", but later in the same section it says "a request to retrieve the value of a property which does not exist is an error and MUST be noted, **if** the response uses a multistatus XML element..." (emphasis mine). The last "if" makes it unclear whether clients should be prepared to accept PROPFIND (or other) responses that are not multistatus. I apologize if this question has been answered before on this list. Thanks, Kaushik
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