Re: Issues PUT_AND_INTERMEDIATE_COLLECTIONS and INTEROP_DELETE_AND_MULTISTATUS from Roy T. Fielding on 2003-01-22 (w3c-dist-auth@w3.org from January to March 2003)

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:47:54 -0800
To: "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@xythos.com>
Cc: "'Webdav WG'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
Message-Id: <D0F13C3A-2DDD-11D7-9535-000393753936@apache.org>

> Issue INTEROP_DELETE_AND_MULTISTATUS: this issue is a request for 
> DELETE errors to be 4xx so that HTTP clients don’t think 207 is a 
> success. That’s no longer really an issue – few HTTP clients do 
> authoring, and those that do are at least aware that 207 is a 
> multistatus response and not a complete success. We should resolve 
> this won’t fix.

Doing that violates the HTTP protocol, not WebDAV.

....Roy

Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2003 04:32:24 UTC