On 2011-12-13 16:13, Cameron Heavon-Jones wrote:
On 13/12/2011, at 3:04 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
Different clients have different expectations on the response payload they get
for a successful DELETE, though. Most non-HTML clients do not care about any
additional information, so sending more than a status message is a waste of
bits.
Why is the client advertising that it "Accept: text\html" if it doesn't want
it? Seems like it is requesting a waste of bits.
if it wants a simple status message it should "Accept: text\plain" or some such
other.
If everything was written from scratch, maybe. But it isn't.
Servers have sent HTML-typed status messages for over a decade now, and
the HTTP spec even recommends it in several places.
Best regards, Julian
