Re: Thoughts on relation to WebDAV

Helge Hess <[email protected]> Sun, 25 May 2008 21:10:06 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.webdav
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On 25.05.2008, at 20:48, Werner Baumann wrote:
> then misuse status code 403 to reject what the clients can expect to  
> succeed

The clients cannot expect the operation to succeed (200 OK), whether  
its misused or not. They need to deal with 403 even in the context of  
fully conforming servers.
I guess thats why Julian was saying that the 'misuse' has no practical  
consequences.

Thanks,
   Helge