- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:21:09 +0100
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Roy T. Fielding > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:51 PM > To: Julian Reschke > Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org > Subject: Re: Issues PUT_AND_INTERMEDIATE_COLLECTIONS and > INTEROP_DELETE_A ND_MULTISTATUS > > > > > Assuming WebDAV would want to define a new 4xx status code -- how do I > > find > > out about which codes have been "taken"? Roy? > > I don't know what the status of the registry is now, but it was supposed > to be IANA. The holdback was the lack of a registration process > [meaning > the lack of a volunteer with enough free time to write that boring > task]. > Larry might know the current state. > > Why don't you just respond with the status code of the first error, > since otherwise you will need a 5xx as well. > > 207 is completely lame (and yes I did make a stink of it at the time). > HTTP doesn't specify the contents of the message body -- a > multi-response > could have just as easily been done as 200/201 with a special media type > specific to webdav. The client already knows it is performing a webdav > action and intermediaries know it isn't cacheable (because of the > method), > so a parallel set of status codes isn't necessary. > > ....Roy >
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