- From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@album.co.nz>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:08:06 +1300
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Cc: 'Erik Bruchez' <erik@bruchez.org>, www-forms@w3.org
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:29 +0100, Mark Birbeck wrote: > The problem my proposal attempts to solve is related to Daniel's but comes > at it from the other side; in SOAP over HTTP, you can get a 500 code > indicating that there was an error, but you can still get valid XML to tell > you about the error. SO you might get "Customer already exists" when you try > to add a new customer. I would have thought that Daniel's server would > ideally be doing something like that (which I think he does mention as a way > to go). Wouldn't it make more sense to send a 4xx error in that example, since the fault is with something the client did (trying to add a customer that already exists) rather than something the server did (e.g. going down for maintenance)? -- Jasper Bryant-Greene General Manager Album Limited e: jasper@album.co.nz w: http://www.album.co.nz/ p: 0800 4 ALBUM (0800 425 286) or +64 21 232 3303 a: PO Box 579, Christchurch 8015, New Zealand
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