Re: ERROR verb

[Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:22:23 -0400, Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Solving problems for everyone is harder than solving problems for Atom.

Of course. That's probably why I find this so fascinating. I think it's  
wierd that the XHTML guys haven't done anything about this, but then  
again, it might have been discussed thoroughly on their mailing list.  
Client-server (not server-client) error reporting is something valuable to  
all types of web resources, not only Atom. Especially XML resources of  
course; e.g. XHTML, RDF/XML, etc.

> I think someone should definitely write this up. It will be interesting  
> to contrast with PaceServiceError.

Yea, I'll hope Henry can write this up in a Pace.

> There are some differences here. One is that you're sending the error  
> back to the URI it was retrieved from.

Yes. Which i think makes a lot of sense.

> Another is that it doesn't work in the absence of an HTTP response.

What do you mean? If there's no response, there will probably me nothing  
to ERR about. Or are you talking about something different?

> Also, I'm concerned that the definition of "error" could
> creep

How and why?

> When I first picked up this idea[1], I thought of making a new verb, too.
> Watching people *freak out* about PUT and DELETE made me pretty  
> skeptical it would ever happen.

I'm skeptical as well, but if the TAG likes this idea, we might get  
somewhere with it. Let's hope and see.

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