On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:57 -0500, Dale Worley wrote:
> I am starting work on XX-7389, "Subscribe Server should respond 404 when
> SUBSCRIBE does not address an implemented resource".  There is an open
> design question regarding how the Subscribe Server should determine if a
> resource exists or not.  During normal operation, the application code
> will have published content for every resource that exists, which makes
> the decision whether or not to respond 404 rather easy.  But during
> startup, the Subscribe Server has no reliable guide to which resources
> are implemented and which are not (since the application code hasn't
> told it yet).
> 
> One solution to this problem is to ignore it -- if the application
> hasn't provided content yet, respond 404, and assume that the subscriber
> will retry later, by which time the content will have been provided.

That seems like a good first cut to me.  I'd say let's try it and see
what problems it causes in practice, then worry about fancier
approaches.


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