RE: JW4: error code for partial results

• From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
• Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:39:59 -0700
• To: "'DASL'" <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <NDBBIKLAGLCOPGKGADOJKEDACAAA.ejw@ics.uci.edu>

> I suppose the issue here is the precious nature of 3 digit
> error codes -- they aren't making any more of them.
> If people think that "partial results" is sufficiently general
> (and I suspect it probably is), it would be fine with me to add it
> to the 3 digit error codes. Would getting a new error code delay
> approval of the DASL spec?

The IETF has complete change control over the HTTP status code space, and
hence an IETF Proposed Standard specification can add new status codes.

- Jim

Received on Thursday, 24 June 1999 16:43:24 UTC