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The HTTP 204 No Content success status response code indicates that a request has succeeded, but that the client doesn't need to navigate away from its current page. This might be used, for example, when implementing "save and continue editing" functionality for a wiki site.
207: Multi-Status The default message/response is a text/XML message. It indicates that multiple operations have taken place and that the status for each operation can be viewed in the body of the response.
2xx successful – the request was successfully received, understood, and accepted. 3xx redirection – further action needs to be taken in order to complete the request. 4xx client error – the request contains bad syntax or cannot be fulfilled.
Partial request responsesA range request that is out of bounds will result in a 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable status, meaning that none of the range values overlap the extent of the resource. For example, the first-byte-pos of every range might be greater than the resource length.
I've dealt with a very similar issue. In this case, I returned a
207 Multi-Status
Now, this isn't strict HTTP, it's part of the WebDAV extension, so if you don't have control over the client too, then this isn't good for you. If you do, you could do something like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<D:multistatus xmlns:D='DAV:'>
<D:response>
<D:user>user-123</D:user>
<D:status>success</D:status>
</D:response>
<D:response>
<D:user>user-789</D:user>
<D:status>failure</D:status>
</D:response>
</D:multistatus>
But again, this is an HTTP extension, and you need to have control of the client as well.
I've had the same problem, and I've ended up using two different solutions:
202: Accepted, indicating that the request was ok, but there's no guarantee everything actually went as it should.200 in the response, but include a list of what didn't pan out in the response body.The second one usually works best, but the first one is great if you're lazy or use a queue for processing.
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