HTTP Status Codes

[chris fink]

Hi,

What are the appropriate HTTP Status Codes for the following:

1. XML is not well-formed (structure problem)....
2. XML is not valid (as per DTD/XSD/XDR).....missing req'd field, etc
I checked out W3C spec and was unable to decide which status codes are best.
Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Kirk Allen Evans [MSFT]]

There are not HTTP status codes for this. Status codes are
protocol-specific and are independent of the data that they carry. For
instance, you can include HTTP that is horribly written and does not conform
to any semblance of a specification, yet a web server will still deliver it
to you if you ask for it. The fact that it is XML has no bearing on the web
request.

Types of HTTP status codes are:

200 - OK
302 - Resource moved to another location
401 - Not authorized
404 - Not Found
500 - Server error

For a more thorough list, see the W3C protocol spec.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
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Hi,

What are the appropriate HTTP Status Codes for the following:

1. XML is not well-formed (structure problem)....
2. XML is not valid (as per DTD/XSD/XDR).....missing req'd field, etc
I checked out W3C spec and was unable to decide which status codes are best. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.