- From: Clemm, Geoff <gclemm@rational.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:07:50 -0500
- To: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
To help us in our categorization of errors, could you describe how does a web spider responds differently to a 4xx or a 5xx? Also, although it is good to know that one way is compliant and the other is not (:-), it would be helpful to have some criteria to to actually make that determination. In particular, how do you distinguish a client error category (making a bad request) from a server error category (not satisfying a valid client request). There are some obvious cases (a syntactically ill-formed request), but many of the others could fall in either category (the quota errors, in particular). Cheers, Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Roy T. Fielding [mailto:fielding@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:43 PM To: Clemm, Geoff Cc: WebDAV Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-webdav-quota-01.txt > What I was asking was whether there was a client that > generically handled 4xx codes (i.e. a 4xx code that it had no > special handling for) in a significantly different way than > it handles a 5xx code (i.e. a 5xx code that it had no special > handling for). Yes, web spiders that perform maintenance. > I.e., when we are deciding whether to put a > specific code in the 4xx or 5xx range, does it matter which > one we pick? Yes. One way is HTTP compliant; the other is not. ....Roy
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