> > What response should I give to an SRU request for a non-existant database?
> We discussed this week or two ago, I think.  I favoured just telling
> it like it is: HTTP 404 Not Found.  But others had different ideas and
> there was no conclusion.

That was for non existant operations.  Though we should decide on what to
do for that as well.  I'm in favor of 404 for non existant database.

I'm still in favor of Theo's suggestion of a diagnostic in an explain
response for an unknown operation.

http://srw.o-r-g.org:8080/foo
  -> unknown db, 404, can be handled by web server
http://srw.o-r-g.org:8080/l5r?operation=foo
  -> unknown op, explain+diag, handled by srw

Rob

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