[Grub-dev] Server answer codes

Mark (Markie) newsmarkie at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 29 17:33:02 UTC 2008


well it was a success, the files were saved, just not implemented/used yet,
but a 500 would suggest that it was not received, hmmm...

mark



On Jan 29, 2008 4:58 PM, Yousef Ourabi <yourabi at zero-analog.com> wrote:

> i'm not sure 202 is the best for an error message regarding hbase --
> section 6.1.1 of rfc 2616 is pretty clear that 2xx is success only --
> while one could make the argument that the "client" side was successful, I
> think a 5xx would be more appropriate... since there was a problem, and it
> was clearly on the server side...
>
> input?
>
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> On 1/29/08, jer <jeremie at jabber.org> wrote:
> >
> > > 401 errors are most likely client errors.  It means that the URLs
> > > that were returned in the work unit don't match those that were sent
> > > out.  The URLs that are returned need to be in the same order as the
> > > were in the work unit, and there can't be any missing.
> >
> > To be even more pedantic, if you are getting these it might help to
> > understand exactly what it's validating.  The hash code is generated
> > by doing a cumulative:
> >
> >         for each workunit entry
> >                 hash = sha1hex( last-hash + " " + hostname + " " + path
> > )
> >
> > The hostname and path that are placed into the resulting arc must be
> > exactly the one in the given Host: header and path in the GET request
> > line.
> >
> > It's important that we validate these to at least prevent URL
> > injection through this API, that clients are only returning the URLs
> > that they were assigned.
> >
> > Jer
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