On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Brett Slatkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "The response from the subscriber's callback URL MUST be an HTTP >> success (2xx) code." Why not just specify 202 Accepted here? What >> other value might one expect to see? -T > > Practically speaking, it seems way more people have issues serving the > correct HTTP status codes than one would expect. For instance, the > default response code for more web frameworks is 200 if you do nothing > explicit to modify it. So, if anything, that would advocate for the > 200 response being the signal. However, is there a functional > advantage for specifying 202 instead of 2xx? Seems like that would be > more rigorous but also over-specified, since it does not help achieve > a specific outcome? Good answer. I tend to work mostly down at the Rack or Apache levels and thus the notion that one might not have exact control over the status code had never occurred to me. Sigh. -T
