Hi all,

303 seems to be preferred for Linked Data / RDF:

http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/#r303gendocument

There's an alternative to 303 which got renewed interest lately. It's
explained here:

http://blog.iandavis.com/2010/11/04/is-303-really-necessary/

Recent discussion:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2013Mar/0115.html

JC

On 1 August 2013 21:26, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> On our WMF/WMDE Wikidata coordination call, Daniel suggested we
> revisit bug 44098 [1], asserting that /entity/Q1234 (for example)
> should trigger a 303, not a 302 HTTP status code.
>
> In reading the HTTP spec for this, it would appear that 303 expressly
> prohibits caching the response[2].  I'm not sure if that's going to be
> a problem, since I don't know if we do any 302 response caching (note
> it's just the 303 redirect itself that can't be cached, not the
> target).  However, the spec is also pretty ambiguous about whether 302
> or 303 is more appropriate.
>
> At any rate, Daniel was concerned that this has been an issue for a
> while, but the only artifact I'm seeing of active conversation on this
> topic is bug 44098, which is closed.  Daniel, to make sure we track
> this, assuming we don't quickly come to a resolution in this thread,
> could you file a new bug requesting the 302 response be updated to
> 303?
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44098
> [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.3.4
>
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