Re: Open Questions on using the Atom Feed Format for search results

[Eric Scheid <eric.scheid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/9/05 8:57 AM, "Robert Sayre" <sayrer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 2616 certainly does not cover this.
> 
> I suggest that it does, and the response should be 404 or 410,


On 29/9/05 9:37 AM, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you did a conditional PUT with If-Match, then
> 2616 requires the response to be 412 (Precondition Failed):
> I don't see how 2616 could be any clearer than that.

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>> Should I expect "400 Bad Request", "404 Not
>> Found", or "406 Not Acceptable"?  2616 certainly does not cover this.
> 
> None of those codes are applicable to your situation, so I'm not
> sure your question makes any sense.  2616 does "cover this".

Great, two different answers relying on 2616. Anyone else want to try :-(

Sometimes specs need clarification.

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