Re: draft HTTP 209 draft spec review

Yves,

I found it hard to think of other good reasons for using HTTP 209 except for saving a round-trip. The “don’t change the URL bar” is a bit of a reach. If you can think of one, let me know.

I actually think the 303+200 definition is unhelpful for the general case. It sort of works for rel=describedby, but only when the originally requested resource is a non-information resource. But if you’re requesting an information resource and wanting to get its description, or its provenance, or a related package, then the original response could have been a 200. The real distinguishing feature is the inclusion of a Link with a relevant relation, followed by a request on that related resource.

I’m happy to change the recommendation re Location/Content-Location.

Jeni

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From: Yves Lafon ylafon@w3.org
Reply: Yves Lafon ylafon@w3.org
Date: 10 April 2014 at 23:29:57
To: Jeni Tennison jeni@jenitennison.com
Cc: www-tag@w3.org www-tag@w3.org
Subject:  Re: draft HTTP 209 draft spec review

> On Sat, 5 Apr 2014, Jeni Tennison wrote:
>  
> > TAG members,
> >
> > As discussed during our face-to-face this last week, I have put together
> > a draft review of the draft spec for the HTTP 209 status code, at:
> >
> > https://github.com/w3ctag/spec-reviews/blob/master/2014/04/http-209.md  
> >
> > I?d appreciate a second pair of eyes before we officially forward this
> > on to Eric Prudhommeaux as a consensual TAG review.
>  
> I would also be happy if the primary goal stated by the document was not
> "saving one round trip", especially if we decide to use 209 for other
> "related" use cases, as we discussed during the f2f.
>  
> Thinking about it, 303+200 should be
> 209, with a Location: equal to Content-Location:
>  
> That leaves open definition of 209 where Location: is different from
> Content-Location: and lead to a more generic definition of 209 which would
> 303 + a body which about what was requested, but not the result of
> dereferencing the URL present in Location:
>  
>  
> --
> Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras.
>  
> ~~Yves
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>  
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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/

Received on Friday, 11 April 2014 08:44:04 UTC