[webfinger] Server Response language

["Paul E. Jones" <[e-mail]>]

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