Re: How to express no matching results in HTTP SEARH method?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 04 November 2020 22:33 UTC

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On 2020-11-04, at 21:49, Austin Wright <aaa@bzfx.net> wrote:
> 
> A 204 is identical to sending a 200 response with Content-Length: 0

?

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.3.5

And it’s not like the spec is confabulating here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/204

Grüße, Carsten