- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 15:26:33 +0200
- To: "Weber, Heiko" <Heiko.Weber@softwareag.com>
- CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Weber, Heiko wrote: > I’m sure this has already been discussed on this list before, but > somehow I could not find anything right away about it. > > > > Many WebDAV requests require XML in the body for input. Besides the > values of the input being incorrect, there might also be more > fundamental problems when the input is either not well-formed or does > not validate against the schemas describing the input format. How should > a WebDAV server respond in the case of such a fundamental error? Is > there some DAV:error description for that scenario, or should the server > just respond with a 400 or a 422? Looking at <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2518.html#STATUS_422>, 422 seems to be wrong; so you probably should use just 400. There's no DAV:error code for this condition (yet) -- our server sends a custom code for parsing errors. > ... Best regards, Julian
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