Re: PaceErrVerb

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>]

Antone Roundy wrote:

> > 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.

No. Please not "REPORT". It's taken: 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3253.html#METHOD_REPORT>.

On the other hand, "COMPLAIN" seems to make a lot of sense (this was 
proposed earlier by somebody else, I'm just repeating it :-).

Julian

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