Mike Taylor wrote:

>>Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:54:00 -0500
>>From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
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>>What response should I give to an SRU request for a non-existant database?
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>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.
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HTTP 404 is good. But where is that discussion, apart from this thread?

So SRW has three layers of errors, HTTP, SOAP, SRW. SRU has two. Simple,
huh?

-- Adam

>There must be prior art for similar URL-based web services?
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