Re: POST of a media resource, 201 Created status

[Paul Hoffman <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

At 2:54 PM +0100 1/31/08, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Brian Smith wrote:
> > Please see 
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2008JanMar/0154.html 
> > and 
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2008JanMar/0158.html.
> >
> > There is an assertion there that an HTTP server should only return 
> > "201 Created" if one resource is created. RFC 2616's language that 
> > describes "201 Created" does use singular language ("*a* new 
> > resource"), so I guess that might be correct. If true, then 2616 
> > would effectively require that a POST of a media resource should 
> > never result in a 201 status code, because it will create two 
> > resources (the media link entry and the media resource).
>
> I think that assertion in incorrect. "a new resource" includes the 
> case where multiple resources are being created.

+1. That's the way I read 2616. If they mean "just one", they need to 
say "just one".