Re: Issues PUT_AND_INTERMEDIATE_COLLECTIONS and INTEROP_DELETE_AND_MULTISTATUS from Roy T. Fielding on 2003”N01ŒŽ22“ú (w3c-dist-auth@w3.org from January to March 2003)

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
Date: 2003”N1ŒŽ21“ú 23:47:54 -0800
To: "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@xythos.com>
Cc: "'Webdav WG'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
Message-Id: <D0F13C3A-2DDD-11D7-9535-000393753936@apache.org>

> Issue INTEROP_DELETE_AND_MULTISTATUS: this issue is a request for 
> DELETE errors to be 4xx so that HTTP clients don’t think 207 is a 
> success. That’s no longer really an issue ? few HTTP clients do 
> authoring, and those that do are at least aware that 207 is a 
> multistatus response and not a complete success. We should resolve 
> this won’t fix.
Doing that violates the HTTP protocol, not WebDAV.
....Roy

Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2003 04:32:24 UTC