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Re: #303: Generic semantics for the 400 status code (also #302)

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Sun, 28 July 2013 09:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: #303: Generic semantics for the 400 status code (also #302)
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WFM. Thanks,

On Jul 28, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2012-02-06 09:24, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2012-02-05 22:21, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>> Works for me.
>> 
>> -> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1526>
> 
> So in draft -21 it read:
> 
> "The server cannot or will not process the request, due to a client error (e.g., malformed syntax)." -- <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-21.html#rfc.section.7.5.1>
> 
> In draft -22 this was changed to
> 
> "The 400 (Bad Request) status code indicates that the server cannot or will not process the request because the received syntax is invalid, nonsensical, or exceeds some limitation on what the server is willing to process." -- <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-22.html#rfc.section.6.5.1>
> 
> I'll change that to
> 
> ""The 400 (Bad Request) status code indicates that the server cannot or will not process the request, due to a client error (e.g., malformed syntax)."
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 
> 

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