Open Stack

  Hi Mark,

Yes you are right.  I was not being specific enough.

I am only suggesting that OpenStack handles proper return codes when a 
client is either asking for a different media type or sends a different 
media type that is not supported by OpenStack.

Regards
James


On 6/12/11 6:51 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> On 03/06/2011, at 11:23 PM, James Weir wrote:
>> At the very minimum until/if OpenStack supports XML, when I client wishes to receive media type "application/xml" OpenStack should return a:
>>
>> HTTP: 415 response
>> The server is refusing to service the request because the entity of the request is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method.
> I may be misunderstanding what you're trying to do, but the 415 response status code is for unrecognised/unsupported media types in the request's Content-Type itself (i.e., that of the request body), not that asked for in the accept header.
>
> If you want to say that you don't support any of the formats in the Accept header, you can send a 406 Not Acceptable. However, in HTTP you aren't required to; i.e., the Accept header doesn't define a closed set, UNLESS it contains */*;q=0 (which basically says "don't send me anything else.").
>
> See:
>    http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-14#section-8.4.16
> vs
>    http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-14#section-8.4.7
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
>
>
>


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