[gcs-pcs-list] Re: Revisiting 415 vs 406

Robert Sanderson azaroth at liverpool.ac.uk
Wed Mar 8 15:51:42 EST 2006


>"Request and Response messages MAY transfer an entity if
>not otherwise restricted by the request method or response status
>code. An entity consists of entity-header fields and an entity-body,
>although some responses will only include the entity-headers."

>So typically a "415 Unsupported Media Type" would be returned by a
>server to which you'd POST'd (say) an Atom document and that
>server only understood RSS. And that doesn't fit the unAPI use
>case.

Yep, I'm convinced :)


Rob


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