[Ocs] OCS and MIME types

[Frank Karlitschek]

You are right.

This should be fixed for 1.6 too.
I will try to do this as soon as possible.


Cheers
Frank


On 17.06.2011, at 14:12, Henri Bergius wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Frank Karlitschek <karlitschek at kde.org> wrote:
>> This should be fixed with 2.0
> 
> If you don't mind, I'll keep these in the API tests also for 1.6,
> since sending XML or JSON "as HTML" is kind of bad.
> 
> Another question is how wrong API methods should be asked. With the
> test server, if I run for example
> http://api.test.opendesktop.org/v1/person/foo I get "200 OK" as
> response with this body:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <ocs>
> <meta>
>  <status>failed</status>
>  <statuscode>999</statuscode>
>  <message>please check the syntax. api specifications are here:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services
> debug output:
> http request method: GET
> http request uri: /v1/person/foo
> </message>
> </meta>
> </ocs>
> 
> Would probably be better to send this with a 404 already with v1, as
> otherwise all those wrong routes will be indexed by search engines,
> proxies etc.
> 
> Sending a nice XML-formatted error message on failures is good, though. :-)
> 
>> Frank
> 
> /Henri
> 
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