[gcs-pcs-list] new issue: is 406 correct?

[Mike Rylander]

+1

Wow ... that's the first one I've voted on without issue... scary. :)

On 3/2/06, Daniel Chudnov <daniel.chudnov at yale.edu> wrote:
> unAPI revision 1 states, at the very bottom, among the HTTP status
> code notes:
>
>   "requests for a URI that is available on the server but for a format
>   that is not available for that URI should return status code 406
>   Not Acceptable"
>
>
> While implementing OPA I reread what HTTP status code 406 Not Acceptable
> means:
>
>   http://rfc.net/rfc2616.html#s10.4.7
>
>   "The resource identified by the request is only capable of generating
>   response entities which have content characteristics not acceptable
>   according to the accept headers sent in the request."
>
> Note that we are not currently addressing accept headers in unAPI
> (not that it hasn't come up :).
>
> Perhaps it would be better to use HTTP 415 Unsupported Media Type:
>
>   http://rfc.net/rfc2616.html#s10.4.16
>
>   "The server is refusing to service the request because the entity of
>   the request is in a format not supported by the requested resource
>   for the requested method."
>
>   (Note that this does not even specify mime-type but rather the more
>    general-purpose "format".)
>
>
> That seems like an exact match, and therefore better.  I'll propose we
> change that note, and thus the spec, to now read (where before it read
> as in the first quote):
>
>   "requests for a URI that is available on the server but for a format
>   that is not available for that URI should return status code 415
>   Unsupported Media Type"
>
>
> But, I have no idea if this matters to browsers/languages/etc.
>
>   -Dan
>
>
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> Daniel Chudnov
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