Should we be returning 500 instead?
Yes. To be more concise, I'd think that 503 [1] is appropriate. A 4xx
is not appropriate IMHO, because [2]:
[[
The 4xx class of status code is intended for cases in which the client
seems to have erred.
]]
Cheers,
Michael
[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.5.4
[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.4
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On 28 Jun 2011, at 07:21, Bill Roberts wrote:
Looking for some advice from the community. If we time out a slow-
running SPARQL query, what is the most appropriate HTTP status code
to return to the client? We had been trying 408, but the problem
with that is that some clients (notably Firefox) take it on
themselves to keep retrying the request, which isn't really what we
want.
Should we be returning 500 instead?
Thanks
Bill
