On Thursday, 6 May 2021 6:07:31 PM AEST Sander Schaminee (JIRA) wrote: > I would like to propose to return a *410 ( > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/410 )* instead in > this case: > > 410 Gone > > > > > > > > This response is sent when the requested content has been permanently > > deleted from server, with no forwarding address. Clients are expected to > > remove their caches and links to the resource. The HTTP specification > > intends this status code to be used for "limited-time, promotional > > services". APIs should not feel compelled to indicate resources that have > > been deleted with this status code. > > Please let me know your thoughts on this matter. How can the server tell the difference between something that once existed but is deleted, and something that never existed?
Even if it could, the semantics seems opposed to the last two sentence in the part you quoted. Brad _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
