- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:52:04 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, Brian Korver <briank@xythos.com>
On Sep 2, 2004, at 1:21 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > > For instance, MacOSX maps HTTP status codes to Unix error codes (it's > a filesystem mapper). Unix distinguishes between "no space left on > device" and "quota exceeded". The protocol should allow the client to > distinguish both cases. I disagree. The chances that a single system has both apply in a meaningful way, and that the client needs to do both, and that the client has a way to display both, are pretty small. The same mechanism can handle either case but not both at once. Lisa
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