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Re: PaceErrVerb
On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 06:57 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote:
* why ERR instead of ERROR?
ERROR is not a verb and someone was looking for a verb (then again
OPTIONS is not a verb).
Nor is HEAD (except in the sense of "head them off at the pass", which
isn't what is meant by HTTP HEAD)...or is it? I guess it has become a
verb like "Google" has become a verb.
If people feel that a verb is desirable, perhaps it should be something
that could be used in a sentence. GET works well: "GET that web page".
POST does too: "POST the form contents". PUT and DELETE likewise.
ERR doesn't seem quite right, because it's not transitive, and the
publisher is the one who erred--why should the client ERR in response
to an error? Something like REPORT would work better...and might be
useful for not-yet-imagined things besides errors.
On the other hand, I prefer PaceServiceError.