Re: ldp-ISSUE-74 (conditional requests required): How does a client know if conditional requests are required [Linked Data Platform core]

On 23 May 2013, at 23:31, Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:

> ldp-ISSUE-74 (conditional requests required): How does a client know if conditional requests are required [Linked Data Platform core]
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> http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/track/issues/74
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> Raised by: John Arwe
> On product: Linked Data Platform core
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> Split off from Issue-32.
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> Are conditional requests Required for updates? (specification has a SHOULD)
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> RFC 2616 tells a client how to know (after the fact) if a request was rejected because a pre-condition failed, but not in advance how to know if the server will fail every unconditional request because it implements section 4.4.2 " LDPR servers SHOULD require the HTTP If-Match header and HTTP ETags to detect collisions." with single-minded zeal.
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> RFC 6585 addresses exactly this case, so we should use the status code it defines (428 Precondition Required).
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> Proposal: update 4.4.2 to normatively reference RFC 6585
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> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585#section-3

Seems reasonable, and worth documenting.

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