Re: PaceServiceError GET vs. POST (was Re: AtomPubIssuesList)

[Mark Baker <distobj@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Robert,

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:48:27PM -0400, Robert Sayre wrote:
> We could say "ping". All that's necessary for this to be useful is for 
> the request to be recorded in the access log, along with all the other 
> GETs. No processing is necessary.
> No resource is affected,

The state of the error log is changed.

> the feed is not removed, etc. Requests to the 
> ErrorURI are also idempotent.

It's safety I'm primarily concerned about here, not idempotence.

> >Here is another test for GET: Do you want a web robot to fetch
> >this with a GET? When it does that, is there a resource it can read?
> >Would it be useful to save a copy? Cache it?
> 
> Is a 204 status code allowed for GET?

Sure, but that's not Walter's point.  His point seems to be that you
don't want a spider's attempts at indexing your site confused with
attempts at reporting errors.  I agree with him completely.

Mark.
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