Re: [caldav] Retry request status

Mike Douglass <douglm@rpi.edu> Fri, 12 March 2010 19:22 UTC

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I looked at that as well:

conflict seemed to carry the sense of what was happening: I''d be happy
with either though

Tim Olsen wrote:
> Mike Douglass wrote:
>   
>> I'm thinking of a 409 response with an error response like <DAV:retry/>
>>     
>
> I recommend a 503 with a Retry-After header.  See
> http://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#status.503
>
> Tim
>
>   

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