On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Markus Luczak-Rösch <markus.luczak-roe...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi all! > > Since on the LDOW11 and USEWOD workshops at WWW there was the recent > discussion about using HTTP referrers properly when browsing, crawling > etc. linked data (short using it) I would like to add another thing that I > was wondering about. If endpoints deliver no content to the client e.g. if > the client performs a SPARQL query that yields no results, servers answer > HTTP status code 200 and deliver some content that holds the information > that there were no results. As far as I see, there is the HTTP status code > 204 for exactly this, isn't it? (see > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html)
No, 204 is for the case when there's no actual representation body in the HTTP response, as demonstrated by the requirement that "The 204 response MUST NOT include a message-body". Mark.