- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:03:37 +0100
- To: "Clemm, Geoff" <gclemm@rational.com>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Clemm, Geoff > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:56 PM > To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org > Subject: RE: WebDAV and 404-handling > > > > If you knew that all of your clients will just display > the literal string "404- Not Found" whenever they receive > a 404 status (and they don't try to display the response > body), then you'd be tempted to compose a nice error message > page, and return 200 to avoid the poor 404 behavior of > your clients. This is the "dumb client workaround" approach. I see. Is this just theoretical reasoning, or *are there* actually broken clients like these? > Note that I do not advocate this approach, since that makes > your web site perform poorly with smart clients, but I > think we should acknowledge that there are situations where > violating the protocol in this way produces a better user > experience. > > To repeat though, this is not something I advocate, and it > violates the protocol. Yes. -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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