On 7/17/07, Erik Hetzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:17:19 -0700,
"John D. Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 7/17/07, Erik Hetzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> > You make some really good points; thanks for doing that. I wouldn't
> > put this in 'should never' land, however. It's certainly not something
> > that is clearly stated in RFC 2616.
>
> Actually... Check out section 9.1, particularly 9.1.2 Idempotent Methods.
As I understand it, idempotence has to do with side effects, not HTTP
responses or their status codes.
Ah, well, actually, that's the point... Idempotence means you get the
same effect. If the effect is that the resource has been e.g.,
deleted successfully then, by definition, you should get the same
status code and response for all of the DELETE calls.
Take care,
John
