Re: [webfinger] Server Response language

[Goix Laurent Walter <[e-mail]>]

Le 20 déc. 2012 à 18:53, "Tim Bray" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> a écrit :

That’s what 404 is for; I quote RFC2616:


10.4.5 404 Not Found

   The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI.

It’s bad practice to incorporate referenced specifications by value not by reference.  -T

Agreed. It's a pity the same was not adopted for jrd ;)

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Paul E. Jones <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
The 404 bit is needed, since the “webfinger” server was found… just not the resource being queried.  That question absolutely will come up.

The new stuff (401, 2xx), I agree: it’s re-stating what HTTP does.

If others agree, I’ll not put that into the spec.

Paul

From: Tim Bray [mailto:[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:30 PM
To: Paul E. Jones
Cc: [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>; [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [webfinger] Server Response language

As in every other case where the WebFinger spec is merely re-iterating standard HTTP rules, I suggest just removing this language. -Tim
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Paul E. Jones <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
Folks,

We had this previously:

“If the client queries the WebFinger server and provides a URI for which the server has no information, the server MUST return a 404 status code.”

Someone posted to the list that we should talk about positive replies and mention that a client might be rejected with a 401.  So, I wrote this text to be appended to the end of that above paragraph:

“If the server is able to provide information in response to a request, it MUST do so using an appropriate 2xx HTTP status code and including the requested representation in the body of the response.  A server MAY also return other HTTP status codes, as appropriate, such as a 401 to indicate that the client is not authorized to issue a request to the server.”

Is this agreeable?  Please suggest wording changes, if not.

Paul



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