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Hello, 

On 28 Jun 2011, at 07:46, Michael Hausenblas wrote:

> 
>> 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.
> ]]

Indeed 503 seems like the right thing™ to use, Yahoo's response codes may be a 
good place to look at an implementation of a webservice.

Mischa

> 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
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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