Re: #461, was: p4: editorial suggestions

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2013-04-30 16:46, Ken Murchison wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:07:49 +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2013-04-23 05:47, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>
>> > * 3.1 "...instead they MUST respond with the 412 (Precondition
>> Failed) status code."  This is too strong; e.g., what if
>> authentication is needed? Suggest an "unless..." clause allowing other
>> error status codes.
>
> The first paragraph of Section 5 seems to address the case of 401 and
> any other errors:
>
> "For each conditional request, a server must evaluate the request
> preconditions after it has successfully performed its normal request
> checks (i.e., just before it would perform the action associated with
> the request method). Preconditions are ignored if the server determines
> that an error or redirect response applies before they are evaluated.
> Otherwise, the evaluation depends on both the method semantics and the
> choice of conditional."
>
> The second sentence in Section 3 references Section 5 as far as when
> preconditions are applied.  This seems sufficient to me, but perhaps
> that is because I have read the document several times and know what it
> says in its entirety.

Good catch! I agree that we can leave the sentence alone, then.

Best regards, Julian