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Re: [coman] constrained management: best practice for "features"

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Mon, 27 October 2014 07:01 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [coman] constrained management: best practice for "features"
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 03:08:37PM -0700, Thomas Watteyne wrote:
> 
> >    4. would a HTTP/CoAP status code (e.g. "501 Not Implemented") be a
> > >    viable alternative for feature discovery?
> > Unclear. Which request would trigger this?
> 
> 
> Assuming some feature is NOT implemented on a server, and a client tries to
> access one of the corresponding resources. I was wondering what HTTP status
> code would be returned, according to RESTCONF.

If this is not clear from the spec, the proper place to raise this
question is the NETCONF WG.

/js

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