Re: Getting to Consensus on 1xx Status Codes (#535)

• From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
• Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:32:06 -0400
• To: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
• cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <2908899CD8C964AD2F03BCD8@caldav.corp.apple.com>

Hi Zhong,

--On July 22, 2014 at 10:23:48 AM -0500 Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com> 
wrote:

>> Well now, some CalDAV servers are using 100-Continue as a keep-alive
>
> That seems a misuse of 100. Maybe 303 (one or more) is better.

I don't see how that can be applicable to this keep-alive case. If we 
wanted to have the client do a follow-up request to get the actual result 
of a time consuming request, then 202 Accepted would be the better way to 
do that.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

Received on Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:32:36 UTC