Re: More comments on pre-draft (as of 2007-05-17)

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On May 17, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> > >    2.  If the deletion is successful the server responds with a  
> > > status
> > >        code of 200.
> > >
> > > JRE: are we sufficiently clear that this may be another 2xx  
> > > status, such as 204, as well?
> > To me, "200" means "200", not "2xx". I'm not sure what we want,  
> > but we don't want to mix those up.
>
> Yes, but we say earlier that any HTTP success code is OK. People  
> are likely to misread this part of the spec to mean that it'll be  
> always be 200.

Yes, in fact, the Ape once crapped on someone's implementation  
because it responded to a PUT with no body and (correctly) a 204.  If  
that's not OK per the spec, that's a bug. -Tim